by Jennifer A Dlouhy Bloomberg News As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers. A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy [...]
by Liberty Unyielding Staff Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt weighed in on an issue the Trump administration has been silent on since taking the reins of government in January. Pruitt said the Paris climate agreement was “a bad deal” that should have been treated by the Obama administration as a treaty, instead of [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XIV Winter 2017. Click headlines for the full article. President Trump’s Clean Power Plan Executive Order Corrects Obama EPA’s Overreach by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Executive Director On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan [...]
by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow This week marks the one-year anniversary of nearly two dozen state attorneys general, alongside “green” investor and former vice president Al Gore, announcing a coalition to investigate, as fraud, opposition to the climate change political agenda. Since that blustery event, however, all signs are that ringleader New York Attorney [...]
by C-FACT's Paul Driessen As Appearing in Townall.com The $1.5-trillion Climate Crisis industry is not about to go quiet into that dark night, or to strut but an hour upon the stage, to then be heard no more. In these desperate times, it is unleashing even more sound and fury, and assaulting new targets, in a frantic [...]
by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow In February 2014, acting on tips received, E&E Legal requested records regarding “climate risk disclosure” from the New York Office of Attorney General (OAG) under that state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). This “CRD” movement is part of a campaign to, in effect, coerce ‘confessions’ out of energy-related interests [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt weighed in on an issue the Trump administration has been silent on since taking the reins of government in January. Pruitt said the Paris climate agreement was “a bad deal” that should have been treated by the Obama administration as a treaty, instead [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As appearing in the Washington Times Recent media reports suggest a conflict within the Trump White House over whether to keep the president’s campaign promise “to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement,” the successor to the rejected Kyoto Protocol. President Trump also promised to roll Barack Obama’s controversial [...]
by Brandi Buchman Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN) – Fearing that the State Department helped organize climate-change activists before President Barack Obama left office, a coal-funded think tank has brought a federal complaint to access the agency’s emails. The group behind Monday’s lawsuit is called the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Read more.
For Immediate Release: February 27, 2017 Contact: David Sanders Sanders@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 E&E Legal Again Forced to Sue State Department for Public Records Department fails to even acknowledge Request for specific correspondence with and about key green lobbyist who boasted of recruitment by China to organize Post-Obama Climate Agenda Washington, DC – Today the Energy & [...]
