by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press On a trip to China to meet with the Communist dictator President Xi Jinping, California Governor Jerry Brown is signaling to the world his fidelity to the unratified and dubious Paris Climate treaty, in spite of President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press With President Donald Trump reportedly pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, heads must be exploding in California’s Democratic supermajority State Capitol. However, Trump’s decision fulfills a very important campaign promise he made to “cancel” the accord. California Gov. Jerry Brown [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press Governor Jerry Brown has just appointed two radical environmental justice activists to the California Public Utilities Commission, replacing two commissioners whose terms expired January 1, 2017. Awaiting Senate confirmation, are Clifford Rechtschaffen and Martha Guzman Aceves—two Brown insiders with shady records [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Frontpage Mag California Gov. Jerry Brown wants President Barack Obama to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in the state – except of course, on Brown’s personal land. In an attempt to lock in environmental protections before President-Elect Donald Trump takes office in January, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press The inconsistencies of California Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate change policies, together with his immigration policies, are formidable and deliberately deceptive — one policy is driving taxpayers and businesses out of the state, and the other is driving droves of unskilled, unemployed aliens [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press The inconsistencies of California Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate change policies, together with his immigration policies, are formidable and deliberately deceptive — one policy is driving taxpayers and businesses out of the state, and the other is driving droves of unskilled, unemployed aliens [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in Flash Report The announcement last week from PG&E that it was closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, rudely came on the same day there were rolling blackouts in Los Angeles amidst sweltering temperatures. [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Spring 2016. Click on headlines for the full article. Vermont Records Request Blows AGs Scandal Wide Open by Craig Richardson, Executive Director On April 15, E&E Legal publicly released e-mails obtained through a public records request to the Attorney General of Vermont. The [...]
by Katie Grimes, Senior Media Fellow Freedom of the press protects the right to obtain and publish information or opinions without government censorship or fear of punishment, whether or not government finds the material offensive, or disagrees with it. Free speech enables people to obtain information from a diversity of sources, make decisions, and communicate [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report While the state of California is extracting billions of dollars from businesses and utilities through the California Air Resources Board’s cap-and-trade program auctions, the Legislature can’t decide how to spend the billions. Instead, lawmakers have been arguing over how to direct [...]
