Milloy

21 02, 2018

E&E Legal’s Steve Milloy Petitions President Trump for Federal Standards to Stop Overregulation Based on Junk Epidemiology

2018-12-19T13:52:12-05:00February 21st, 2018|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Milloy, Policy, Regulatory Reform|

 E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow Steven J. Milloy today petitioned President Trump seeking federal standards to end the misuse and abuse of epidemiology by regulatory agencies that results in costly and pointless overregulation.  Milloy petitioned the President for an Executive branch-wide set of "standards for the use of epidemiology studies by regulatory agencies.” In the letter, Milloy [...]

31 01, 2018

Burnett: California, New York City Target Oil Giants With Climate Lawsuits

2018-01-31T15:45:52-05:00January 31st, 2018|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Conflict of Interest, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Milloy, Suits|

by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland New York City, San Francisco, and Oakland have filed lawsuits against the five largest private oil companies—BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell—claiming they are contributing to destructive climate change...New York City’s lawsuit comes just a few months after several cities in California, including San Francisco and Oakland, filed [...]

25 01, 2018

Burnett: Endangerment Finding Resolution Withdrawn During ALEC Meeting

2018-01-31T16:02:43-05:00January 25th, 2018|"Scare Pollution", Endangerment Finding, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland The co-sponsors of a resolution calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen and review its finding that carbon dioxide poses a danger to human health and the environment withdrew the resolution from consideration. A resolution calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reopen and review its finding [...]

26 12, 2017

Fox News: ‘Junk science’? Studies behind Obama regulations under fire

2018-01-08T18:46:12-05:00December 26th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Fred Lucas Fox News Scientific studies used by the Obama administration to help justify tough environmental regulations are coming under intensifying scrutiny, with critics questioning their merit as the Trump EPA reverses or delays some of those rules. In one case, agencies determined the research used to prop up a ban on a pesticide [...]

19 12, 2017

E&E Legal Letters Issue XVII: Fall 2017

2017-12-20T10:00:06-05:00December 19th, 2017|E&E Legal Letters, Grimes, Milloy, Richardson|

Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XVII Fall 2017. Click headlines for the full article. AG Climate-RICO Litigation Heats Up; Former AG Sorrell Ducks Deposition by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President As the fall wound down, E&E Legal pursued a number of public records request lawsuits in New [...]

12 12, 2017

Daily Caller: Oil Giant Exxon Just Caved To The Demands Of Global Warming Activists

2018-01-08T18:53:45-05:00December 12th, 2017|Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Oil giant ExxonMobil has capitulated to activist shareholders and will begin issuing detailed reports on potential risks “climate change policies” pose to its business operations. “These enhancements will include energy demand sensitivities, implications of two degree Celsius scenarios, and positioning for a lower-carbon future,” Exxon wrote in a federal regulatory [...]

8 12, 2017

ClimateWire: Where, Exactly, Does EPA Chief Pruitt Stand on Climate?

2018-01-08T19:00:30-05:00December 8th, 2017|Endangerment Finding, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Zach Colman ClimateWire NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The conservative movement might have given U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt cover for one of the few climate change fights he's hesitated to embrace. Pruitt has expressed cautiousness about challenging the endangerment finding, the tome of scientific evidence for the harmful impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on human health. He's [...]

6 12, 2017

Axios: The right’s civil war over science goes to Tennessee

2017-12-07T14:39:02-05:00December 6th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Media Coverage, Milloy, Scandal|

by Amy Harder Axios America's right flank is at war with itself over climate-change science, and the latest battle is this week in Nashville. Driving the news: The American Legislative Exchange Council, a policy group of conservative state lawmakers and companies, holds a meeting Thursday in Nashville, Tenn. Members of one of its task forces [...]

16 11, 2017

CNBC: Climate skeptics and coal boosters gather to cheer Trump’s energy agenda — and hold his feet to the fire

2018-01-08T19:03:43-05:00November 16th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Endangerment Finding, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Tom DiChristopher CNBC HOUSTON — Clips of President Donald Trump extolling the virtues of fossil fuels played over a bed of soaring music, in the well-appointed hotel ballroom, as images of coal miners and the Statue of Liberty flashed across the screen. When the video came to a close, the audience erupted in applause [...]

16 11, 2017

CNBC: Climate skeptics and coal boosters gather to cheer Trump’s energy agenda — and hold his feet to the fire

2017-11-28T16:01:23-05:00November 16th, 2017|CASAC, Media Coverage, Milloy, Transition|

by Tom DiChristopher CNBC HOUSTON — Clips of President Donald Trump extolling the virtues of fossil fuels played over a bed of soaring music, in the well-appointed hotel ballroom, as images of coal miners and the Statue of Liberty flashed across the screen. When the video came to a close, the audience erupted in applause [...]

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