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. [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller One of the wealthiest Democratic donors in the country was single-handedly responsible for making the environmental movement one of the highest grossing industries last year. Billionaire Tom Steyer contributed 85 percent of the industry’s contributions, or $87 million during the 2016 presidential election, according to a May report published [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller A conservative legal group claimed Monday that Vermont’s attorney general withholds public information requests from groups that appear friendly toward ExxonMobil. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan questions the motives of groups seeking access to public information, E&E Legal told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a press statement. The [...]
