by Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer Cato Institute The Commerce Clause, while invoked since the New Deal as a warrant for progressive federal policy, actually provides protections for businesses against state regulations that burden interstate commerce. In Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority (1986), for example, the Supreme Court struck down [...]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Petitions the Supreme Court Regarding the Constitutionality of Colorado's Renewable Energy Standards Washington, D.C. - On Friday, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court regarding the suit E&E Legal brought against the State [...]
For Immediate Release: July 14, 2015 Contact: David W. Schnare Schnare@eelegal.org 571-243-7975 In a brief, harmful opinion straying from well-established precedent, on Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in E&E Legal Institute v. Epel condemned the 128,000 poorest families in Colorado, many living well below the federal poverty line, to perpetual [...]
by Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal Conservative thought on campus these days is rare, though for some it’s still not rare enough. Witness the growing campaign by politicians, unions and environmentalists to intimidate into silence any academic or program that might challenge liberal ideology... Largely unnoticed is that the congressional climate crusaders didn’t come up [...]
For Immediate Release: March 23, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act Used to Determine Whether UVA Can Keep Scientific Bias Secret Washington, D.C. — Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, accuses university faculty of bias based on the source of their funding – arguing [...]
by Robin Bravender and Amanda Peterka E&E Reporters Wanted: Nonsmoking, active adults to inhale nitrogen dioxide and ozone during a workout. Those people will help U.S. EPA study the physiological changes caused by the exposure to dirty air. Participants would breathe clean air laced with pollution; exercise on and off during exposures; and have their breathing, [...]
by Paul Chesser National Legal and Policy Center Another disturbing revelation of experiments on humans by the Environmental Protection Agency has been uncovered, after similar tests were exposed at EPA’s Human Studies Facility at the University of North Carolina 2 ½ years ago. This time the “research” was conducted at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles. The test subjects were [...]
by Tony Flesor Law Week Colorado Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard is facing challenges on two fronts: in the courts and in the legislature... Last year, the RES temporarily survived an attempt to remove it when a Colorado District Court judge ruled against the activist group, the Environment and Energy Legal Institute, which goes by the [...]
by Ethan Barton Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials said they stopped using kids for experiments in 2006, but subsequent reports from a health research project in which nearly two dozen children were exposed to diesel fumes contradict their claim. "After the 2006 ban went into effect, UCLA and USC used cells in their laboratories [...]
by John Dale Dunn MD JD The American Thinker The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has been involved in a scandalous, unethical, and illegal human exposure experimental research program for two decades. The Agency has sponsored, encouraged and funded research that exposes children and adults to air pollution, which it has told the congress and [...]
