Issues

6 04, 2020

E&E Legal Joins AEA and Other Free-Market Groups In Letter to White House Supporting CAFE Standard Program Reforms

2020-04-07T11:35:21-04:00April 6th, 2020|CAFE, Coalitions, Petition, Richardson|

Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), joined with nearly fifty other representatives from free-market organizations in a letter to President Trump expressing support for "the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. This joint Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking will reform the federal fuel mandates known as the [...]

3 04, 2020

Grimes: Is Compliance the New Patriotism?

2020-04-10T12:37:48-04:00April 3rd, 2020|California, Grimes, Media Coverage, Socialism|

by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘This willingness to report others is poisoning civilized behavior’ This desire to rat out neighbors, friends, and local businesses, who may or may not be violating the order to close or stay inside the home, is a cancer feeding the totalitarian impulses of certain politicians. Sacramento [...]

2 04, 2020

Walcher: The (supply) chain of fools

2020-04-06T11:19:07-04:00April 2nd, 2020|Made in America, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The coronavirus pandemic has focused considerable attention on the supply chain for medical machinery, pharmaceuticals, and personal protective equipment like hospital gowns, masks, and gloves. Most Americans previously had little notion of how dependent the U.S. economy was on China and [...]

1 04, 2020

Grimes: Gov. Newsom: Coronavirus Is ‘Opportunity for Reimagining a More Progressive Era’

2020-04-06T11:40:14-04:00April 1st, 2020|California, Grimes, Media Coverage, Socialism|

by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe We are at a completely different place than the state of New York’ Thursday will be two weeks since California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his March 19th mandatory shelter-at-home order to the state’s 40 million residents. Since then, he predicted his order could extend into June. Gov. Newsom has been [...]

1 04, 2020

E&E News: Obama blasts Trump over coronavirus, climate change

2020-04-06T11:02:03-04:00April 1st, 2020|"Scare Pollution", Conflict of Interest, Coronavirus, Fake News, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Scott Waldman E&E News reporter Barack Obama took a thinly veiled swipe yesterday at President Trump for his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic — warning that future generations would face a similar catastrophe if climate change is left unchecked. The former president doesn't often criticize his successor in public, but Obama took issue [...]

31 03, 2020

Milloy: EPA staff sabotages fuel economy rollback

2020-04-06T11:31:05-04:00March 31st, 2020|"Scare Pollution", CAFE, Conflict of Interest, Junkscience.com, Milloy|

by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on Junkscience.com So the Trump administration finally finished rolling back the pointlessly expensive and impossible-to-achieve 2012 Obama administration fuel economy standards. Great. But did EPA staff sabotage the rulemaking to favor certain legal challenge by environmentalists? You betcha. The pending Federal Register notice for [...]

30 03, 2020

E&E Legals Joins Other Free-Market Groups on the AEA Energy Freedom Resolution

2020-04-06T11:56:12-04:00March 30th, 2020|Coalitions, Energy, Petition|

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute was one of more than twenty free-market organizations that signed onto the American Energy Alliance's (AEA's) Energy Freedom Resolution.  AEA notes, "This resolution is a statement on the relationship between energy, freedom, and human wellbeing. The members of this coalition agree: a free market is the means through which [...]

27 03, 2020

New York Times: Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Find Opposition From Within: Science Staff

2020-03-30T11:50:07-04:00March 27th, 2020|"Scare Pollution", Communism, Fake News, Media Coverage, Milloy, Socialism|

by Coral Davenport New York Times Reporter President Trump has made rolling back environmental regulations a centerpiece of his administration, moving to erase Obama-era efforts ranging from landmark fuel efficiency standards and coal industry controls to more routine rules on paint solvents and industrial soot. But all along, scientists and lawyers inside the federal government [...]

26 03, 2020

Walcher: Can everybody play?

2020-03-30T12:22:18-04:00March 26th, 2020|Land use, Media Coverage, Walcher, Wyoming|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The state of Wyoming is considering the purchase of a vast swath of land along the Union Pacific Railroad corridor, including over 1 million acres of surface and 4 million acres of mineral rights. The valuable resource is now owned by [...]

23 03, 2020

Press Release: Milloy Wins Right to Present Anti-Greenwashing Proposal at Exxon-Mobil Annual Meeting

2020-03-23T12:40:07-04:00March 23rd, 2020|"Scare Pollution", ExxonMobil, Green Groups, Greenwashing, Milloy, Press Releases, Richardson|

E&E Legal's Steve Milloy Wins Right to Present "Anti-Greenwashing"  Shareholder Proposal at Exxon-Mobil May Annual Meeting Despite Stiff Opposition from the Behemoth Corporation For Immediate Release: March 23, 2020 Contact: Info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. -  On Friday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that ExxonMobil must consider E&E Legal senior policy fellow and Junkscience.com [...]

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