by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Daily Caller President Trump took two major steps this week to end the 14-year-old Democrat war against the coal industry and cheap electricity. Although greens have promised to sue, they are unlikely to succeed as the moves have pretty much [...]
by Spencer Brown As appearing on Townhall.com The Biden administration announced its latest move in the president's now long-running campaign to "end fossil fuels" and force Americans through an "energy transition" that has destroyed the country's energy independence, driven energy prices higher, and left Americans more vulnerable to blackouts. Something of a retread of the [...]
by Spencer Brown As appearing on Townhall.com Despite taking a major loss at the Supreme Court of the United States last year in West Virginia v. EPA, President Biden and his administration are set to announce another regulatory policy affecting power plants later this week that will drive energy costs even higher and is probably [...]
For Immediate Release: December 17, 2018 Contact: Info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. - Craig E. Richardson, President of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), announced today that Fred Palmer, an energy policy expert with nearly fifty years of experience - most recently as Senior Vice President of Government Relations for Peabody Energy - has joined E&E Legal [...]
by Jason Hopkins Daily Caller The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to give the coal industry a boost by rolling back another Obama-era environmental regulation. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is expected to rescind a rule that requires new coal plants to be fitted with carbon capture technology, according to several officials who spoke with [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel I have a friend who is always very forthcoming with opinions on almost any subject, although when talking politics he often ends with, "It doesn't really affect me one way or the other." We all feel that way sometimes, because our [...]
by Assistant Editor The Gateway Pundit It would seem that clean-energy hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer never misses an opportunity to repeat his mantra, “need to impeach,” particularly as it relates to the Democratic Party’s beset climate change agenda. Mr. Steyer’s “Need to Impeach” petition drive website states in it’s first sentence, “Donald Trump has [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves? We laugh at those who object to some policy that seemed perfectly OK, when they thought it only applied to others. We make fun of Al [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel A federal judge has ruled that the government must consider reducing mining in America's top coal-producing region, to fight climate change. Moreover, he ordered the Bureau of Land Management to work with the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and four [...]
by Valerie Volcovici Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets. Coal producers filed two recent lawsuits against governments in Washington state and California challenging local decisions to block [...]
