by Scott Waldman E&E News reporter Barack Obama took a thinly veiled swipe yesterday at President Trump for his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic — warning that future generations would face a similar catastrophe if climate change is left unchecked. The former president doesn't often criticize his successor in public, but Obama took issue [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXVI Winter. Click headlines for the full article. Milloy Wins Right to Present Anti-Greenwashing Proposal at Exxon-Mobil Annual Meeting On March 20, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that ExxonMobil must consider E&E Legal senior policy fellow and Junkscience.com author [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on Junkscience.com So the Trump administration finally finished rolling back the pointlessly expensive and impossible-to-achieve 2012 Obama administration fuel economy standards. Great. But did EPA staff sabotage the rulemaking to favor certain legal challenge by environmentalists? You betcha. The pending Federal Register notice for [...]
by Coral Davenport New York Times Reporter President Trump has made rolling back environmental regulations a centerpiece of his administration, moving to erase Obama-era efforts ranging from landmark fuel efficiency standards and coal industry controls to more routine rules on paint solvents and industrial soot. But all along, scientists and lawyers inside the federal government [...]
by Rowan Scarborough Washington Times The coronavirus pandemic has prompted colleges, think tanks, medical journals and governments to release scores of stats and studies — some good, while others fail peer review. The research touches on comparative death counts, the sneezing range of nose droplets, cigarettes and how long the deadly virus can last on [...]
E&E Legal's Steve Milloy Wins Right to Present "Anti-Greenwashing" Shareholder Proposal at Exxon-Mobil May Annual Meeting Despite Stiff Opposition from the Behemoth Corporation For Immediate Release: March 23, 2020 Contact: Info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. - On Friday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that ExxonMobil must consider E&E Legal senior policy fellow and Junkscience.com [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute Members of the Republican congressional caucus have offered a slate of bills that would expand subsidies for and research into carbon-capture and sequestration. Members of the Republican congressional caucus have offered a slate of bills to expand subsidies for and research into carbon-capture and sequestration. The Republican bills [...]
by Valerie Richardson The Washington Times Biden calls for 'no new fracking' at CNN primary debate Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s unexpectedly strong anti-fracking comments at Sunday’s presidential primary debate rattled industry supporters but failed to win over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal sponsor tweeted that the Biden campaign’s $1.7 trillion climate-change initiative was [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett As appearing on Townhall.com Members of the Republican caucus seem not to have learned the lessons of the 2018 election cycle: Climate change is a loser for Republicans trying to play the “me too” game by offering policies intended to demonstrate liberals aren’t the only ones fighting it. Unless one already [...]
by Timothy Cama E&E News reporter The battle for the future of the Republican Party's climate change policy was bubbling under the surface yesterday at the country's largest annual conservative confab. The Conservative Political Action Conference, held in suburban Washington, has long featured events and engagement from groups that challenge the scientific consensus that climate [...]
