by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel We may have discovered, accidentally, a way to give the most radical environmental advocates what they want. We simply shut down the government, or at least part of it (the National Park Service). The most elitist, anti-people concept is the "rewilding [...]
by Justin Farrell, Kathryn McConnell & Robert Brulle nature Climate Change Nowhere has the impact of scientific misinformation been more profound than on the issue of climate change in the United States. Effective responses to this multifaceted problem have been slow to develop, in large part because many experts have not only underestimated its impact, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel You can count on your 10 fingers the number of times the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously on any environmental issue. And you can count on the fingers of one hand the unanimous rulings on endangered species issues. In fact, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel If America's founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no president, they would quickly have chosen the latter. They knew all too well the abuses of an all-powerful monarch. But they also knew complex governments cannot be [...]
by Katy Grimes California Globe Editor & E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow Investigative Journalist Katy Grimes joins California Globe as Editor, January 1, 2019. Grimes is a longtime investigative political journalist, analyst, and author, and reports on the California Legislature and politics from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Grimes has been published in numerous news [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel A political mentor once explained to me why civility is key to long-term success, noting that "today's worst enemy may be tomorrow's only friend." The reverse is also true. Erin Mundahl, an Inside Sources energy reporter, writes about left-leaning green-oriented resort [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 1961, President Kennedy established a national goal “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” We did. Not long after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, President [...]
by Ellen M. Gilmer E&E News reporter Coal lobbyist Fred Palmer is joining the conservative Energy & Environment Legal Institute as a senior legal fellow. Palmer is a former Peabody Energy Corp. lobbyist who recently established the website burnmorecoal.com to advocate for the industry. He will continue his coal advocacy at the legal institute, focusing [...]
On Wednesday, December 5, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson was interviewed on the Steve Gruber Radio Show about yet another lawsuit filed by a desperate NY AG.
by Jason Hopkins Daily Caller The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to give the coal industry a boost by rolling back another Obama-era environmental regulation. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is expected to rescind a rule that requires new coal plants to be fitted with carbon capture technology, according to several officials who spoke with [...]
