by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In a famous 1969 sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Eric Idle approaches a stranger in a pub with a series of cryptic relationship questions, ending each with “wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.” The skit was so popular it [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Atlantic writer Mateo Wong gushes about “a group of people in a red Tesla driving through the Moroccan desert,” when one exclaims, “Two million, Hans!” Apparently, the 2014 Model S became the first electric car to drive 2 million kilometers, or [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel At a recent Cato Institute conference, Elon Musk spoke about “regulatory gridlock” and a system in which “It’s basically illegal to build big projects.” He called for sunsetting numerous (unspecified) regulations, then concluded with this gem: “Every regulation should be accompanied [...]
E&E Legal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), and Truth in Energy and Climate released another version of "Climate Fact Check," this time for June 2024. The edition highlights sensationalized stories about the climate, which is typical for the corporate [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Washington Times Oh, the environmental injustice of it all. Organizers of the Paris Olympic Games thought they were going green by building athletic dormitories without supposedly planet-warming air conditioning. As it turns out, the only athletes going green are those [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLIII Spring 2024. Click headlines for the full article. Epoch TV American Thought Leaders: Steve Milloy On April 30, 2024, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, appeared on Epoch Times TV’s ongoing show, American Thought Leaders. His interview, [...]
Heartland Institute On July 1, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, joined H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Anthony Watts for one of Heartland Institute's regular podcast. The show, Climate Alarmist Messaging Decoded: Lies Work, discusses how the "Climate" Left is hand-wringing over its message receptivity. As the show notes say: [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe $1.21 per gallon collected by the government in taxes and fees We already know that California’s gas prices and gas taxes are the highest in the nation. Buckle up – they are going higher. California’s gas prices [...]
Just The News The Supreme Court Friday issued a ruling that will limit federal agencies’ sweeping regulatory power. Libertarians and conservatives have hailed the decision as increasing individual liberty and reducing the power of bureaucrats over Americans' lives. In a 6-3 decision, the justices vacated a 1984 doctrine known as "Chevron deference," which allows federal [...]
by Nick Pope The Daily Caller The Supreme Court issued a major ruling Friday that curbs the power of the administrative state, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Biden climate agenda being among the decision’s biggest losers. The highest court in the land ruled by a 6-3 vote to overturn a legal theory [...]
