by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Expensive but necessary’ according to lawmakers “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” ~Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and close friend to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and architect of the New [...]
by Jessica Towhey Herald and News The first attempt to turn Green New Deal proposals into legislation would overhaul 1 million public housing units to make them carbon neutral. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act that would use [...]
by Sam Dorman Fox News Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently suggested Miami would disappear in "a few years" due to climate change. The United Nations is convening a "Climate Action Summit" next week. And climate activist Greta Thunberg is on Capitol Hill this week telling lawmakers they must act soon. But while data from NASA and [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe PG&E plan to cut power on windy days could leave millions in the dark, without power Following the devastating California wildfires of 2018, Pacific Gas and Electric recently announced it will cut power this summer to electricity customers on [...]
by Kaylee McGhee Liberty Headlines As congressional Republicans struggle to reach consensus on whether to pursue a climate-change policy in response to socialist legislation like the Green New Deal, some are urging the party not to address it at all. Citing President Donald Trump’s commitment to rolling back burdensome, Obama-era environmental regulations, a pro-energy group [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Wall Street Journal Climate alarmism isn’t popular with the public, so Republicans don’t need an alternative. The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on a 57-0 procedural vote last month. Not a single senator voted to bring the proposal to [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com Saying the nation cannot regulate itself out of climate change, a GOP lawmaker on Capitol Hill has introduced what he calls a "Green Real Deal." OneNewsNow spoke with someone who says the congressman is trying to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." "History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The proposed "Green New Deal" has attracted enormous attention in the past few weeks, mostly negative. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's promise of an early vote on the measure is widely seen as a stunt, designed only to embarrass [...]
On February 23, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow joined Fox News to discuss the Green New Deal.
On Saturday, February 16, 2019, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson joined NH's The Advocates, broadcast on NewsTalk 1350 & 103.3FM, to discuss the 'Green New Deal.'
