by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of think tanks, businesses and consumer groups, and individual researchers in his widening probe of organizations that have written skeptically about purported human-caused climate change and policies proposed and implemented to fight it. His efforts are a witch hunt, [...]
Argus Washington, 2 May (Argus) — The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected industry and state requests that it take another look at CO2 emissions limits for new coal-fired power plants. The agency on 29 April denied five petitions for reconsideration of the regulations filed by two utilities, an industry group and the state of [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute In the Climate Change Weekly released April 5 (CCW 209), I discussed the press conference held by a group of state attorneys general (AG), led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, threatening investigations and possible prosecutions of climate skeptics for speaking their mind. Just days after I wrote that [...]
by Julie Seymour MRCNewsBusters Galileo, the famous Italian astronomer and scientist, once said, “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Tell that to the UN IPCC and the news media. Presumably, Galileo would find the use of the so-called “scientific consensus” on global [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times In the hours before they took the stage for their March 29 press conference, Democratic attorneys general received a secret briefing from two top environmentalists on pursuing climate change dissenters. Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Accountability Institute’s Matt Pawa spent 45 minutes each providing [...]
by Ellen M. Gilmer EnergyWire Reporter As a throng of challengers file legal briefs criticizing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan as overreaching and unconstitutional, one group is stepping forward with a simpler, but serious, allegation: U.S. EPA let lobbyists write the rule. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The Obama administration basically let lobbyists tied to left-wing environmental groups write the government’s massive global warming regulatory scheme, according to documents obtained by a free market legal group. Attorneys with the Energy & Environment Legal Foundation (E&E) released a report Monday calling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a “captured” [...]
For Immediate Release: February 11, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-785-8301 Combatting Climate Change in the Courts by David W. Schnare General Counsel Energy & Environment Legal Institute On February 10th, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (“ACS”) hosted a panel discussion on legal approaches and activities associated with “combatting” climate change through [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon Supporters of a controversial Environmental Protection Agency regulation commissioned Democratic pollsters to plot ways to attack the motives and credibility of the regulation’s critics, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal. Aides to a dozen Democratic governors and the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial advocacy arm circulated talking points and [...]
