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 [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Canada Free Press California Gov. Jerry Brown says the world needs ‘brain washing’ on climate change. Sounding indeed brainwashed, Brown said, “The problem ... is us. It’s our whole way of life. It’s our comfort ... It’s the greed. It’s the indulgence. It’s [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Obama EPA claimed its regulation would have a $55 billion payoff. You’ll never believe how. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed repeal of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is a milestone. No Republican administration has ever mustered the courage [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Vermont’s attorney general (AG) denied the existence of email documents showing the state’s involvement in a month’s long probe targeting fossil fuel groups, a conservative legal group reported Tuesday. Vermont’s AG office told E&E legal attorney Matthew Hardin during a court hearing Monday night that the state’s chief law enforcers [...]
On Friday, August 25, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson was a guest on David Knight's Real News to discuss the latest in U.S. energy policy. Watch here.
Heartland Institute Press Release The New York Times this week posted a draft of a climate science report by the federal government’s U.S. Global Change Research Program. The Timesclaimed it was leaking a confidential document, but apparently the draft was available for public comment for months. The report, which you can read here, was written by Obama-era staffers [...]
by James Delingpole Breitbart On my Delingpole podcast this week we solve one of the great political mysteries of our time: how did President Donald Trump get to be so totally darned amazing on the environment, energy and ‘climate change’? My guest Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute is pretty sure he has the answer. [...]
On July 19, 2017, Breitbart's James Delingpole released a podcast of an interview he conducted with E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner. Horner was in the United Kingdom in early July, and his trip included a briefing to the House of Lords regarding President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Trump administration in May began the process of replacing the small army of outside science advisers at the Environmental Protection Agency. In June, 38 additional EPA advisers were notified that their appointments would not be renewed in August. To [...]
New York – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has been forced yet again to sue a New York governmental entity for failure to adhere to that state's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). This time it’s the New York City Comptroller, in a suit filed in the Supreme Court for New York County last week. [...]
