by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) science advisory panel tasked with reviewing ozone regulations is stacked with experts who have collectively received millions in agency funding over the years. Of the 20 scientific advisers sitting on EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Panel, 17 have received a total of [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Two coal industry veterans are buying shares at major utilities to save what’s left of the U.S. coal fleet. Former Peabody Energy executive Fred Palmer said, “There’s no guardian at the gate with coal.” Palmer and Steve Milloy sent their first shareholder proposal to Duke Energy on Monday. Activist shareholders [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who supports a carbon tax, was among defeated House Republicans who are part of a caucus set up to push global warming policies. Curbelo conceded to Democratic candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell on Tuesday night. Conservatives say the defeat of Curbelo, who’s called a GOP “leader” on [...]
By Richard Trzupek, Heartland Institute As Appearing in The Epoch Times My colleague Steve Milloy, curator of the invaluable common-sense website Junk Science, sent me a link to a press release issued by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) last week. The CBD’s thundering press releasecites a study that purports to demonstrate that the “University [...]
By Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing on cnsnews.com The Trump administration has proposed to freeze Obama-era fuel economy standards at 2020 levels to save lives and money. Opponents want to bring the proposed Safe Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule proposal to a screeching halt by claiming that it will cause more deaths than [...]
by Erin Mundahl InsideSources A decade ago, with gas prices flirting with $4 a gallon, Americans worried about fuel efficiency. But today, after technological innovation opened up the shale fields and dramatically lowered gas prices, that worry has faded. Without the pressure of high gas prices, the Obama administration imposed government standards to pressure automakers [...]
by Richard Morrison Competitive Enterprise Institute Yesterday the Competitive Enterprise Institute published Steve Milloy’s new policy brief on the impact of revised federal rules for auto mileage and emissions, “Will the Trump Fuel Economy Reform Proposal Create Deadly Air Pollution?” This reform to the Obama-era policy on corporate average fuel economy standards is one of the current [...]
by Jason Hopkins Daily Caller A new report reportedly debunks claims that the Trump administration is placing more people at risk of death with its plan to freeze the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan in August to roll back vehicle [...]
Sean Reilly E&E News reporter Two years ago, Steve Milloy was at the forefront in promoting a lawsuit aimed at forcing EPA to dissolve and reconstitute a scientific panel that would review the agency's standards for soot and other tiny airborne particles. The suit failed, but Milloy, who served on President Trump's EPA transition team, [...]
by Michael McGrady The Heartland Institute The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is phasing out its special focus on pollution enforcement against the oil and gas industry and livestock producers. In place of heightened scrutiny on these two industries enacted under former President Barack Obama, EPA will broaden its anti-pollution enforcement efforts to [...]
