Today, E&E Legal's President Craig Richardson made the following statement: “San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer has once again attempted to impose his personal political agenda which would drive others into poverty. Steyer, through his NextGen Climate Action organization, spent over $20 million on Proposition 127 in Arizona which would have required 12% of electricity from [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XX Summer 2018. Click headlines for the full article. Who's In Charge Here? by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Daily Sentinel Restaurant owners may know that open-faced sandwiches are regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [...]
E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellows Steve Milloy and Greg Walcher, along with President Craig Richardson were three of the presenters at the Heartland Institute's 2018 America First Energy Conference. The two-day event, held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, "outlined the advances for Energy Freedom we’ve seen come about under President Trump, and looked forward [...]
On August 7, Craig Richardson was a panelist at one of the Heartland Institute's Energy First Conference held in New Orleans, LA. Richardson was one of three panelists on a session, Fiduciary Malpractice: The ‘Sustainable’ Investment Movement. As the panel description explained, "Environmental activists are gaining voting power to convince corporations and universities to divest from [...]
By James M. Taylor and H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal)...trounced government hacks in the grips of climate alarmist mania in two court battles recently. In the first case, Arizona’s appellate court issued a terse, seven-word decision, “Motion for Stay Pending Appeal is DENIED,” in a case in [...]
by Erin Mundahl InsideSources Environmentalists lost another fight on Thursday, after U.S. District Judge John Keenan dismissed New York City’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, and other major oil companies. In January, the city first filed a lawsuit against the energy companies, arguing that they were liable for damages the city incurred as a result [...]
E&E Legal joined more than 20 other free market organizations in a letter to President Trump encouraging him to end the 'Kigali Amendment.' The letter, which was organized by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), began: Twenty-two free-market, conservative, consumer, and sound science organizations sent a letter to President Trump on July 2 opposing the Kigali Amendment and [...]
by Michael Barnes Liberty Headlines Vermont must pay whopping $66,000 in attorney’s fees for failing to provide public documents… The practice of blocking access to public records just got expensive for Vermont’s chief law enforcement officers. In a landmark ruling with extenuating circumstances involving consecutive Vermont Attorneys General, ExxonMobil and disgraced former New York Attorney [...]
On June 27, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson appeared on the Joe Thomas In-the-Morning radio show to discuss the CA Federal District Court's decision to dismiss the shakedown lawsuits against leading energy companies. Listen here.
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XIX Spring 2018. Click headlines for the full article. EPA Chief Puts Science Back Into Environmental Protection by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Signal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt may be just a lawyer, but so [...]
