by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel One of the great objectives of conservation is to restore a more natural condition to our environment, to erase the ravages of mankind’s mistakes, and put things back the way they were. I am a strong advocate for environmental restoration, and [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on Junkscience.com Below is my 3-minute presentation of my shareholder proposal at today’s ExxonMobil annual meeting. Although I lost the shareholder vote — both management and institutional shareholders are climate bedwetters or activists — I got enough votes to have my proposal [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal Companies tout their work on climate change in their filings but mislead the public about their impact. Climate-change partisans on both sides often accuse one another of dishonesty. Here’s a suggestion for resolving that dispute in at [...]
by Tyler O'Neil PJ Media On Monday, YouTube pulled Michael Moore’s latest film, Planet of the Humans, allegedly for a copyright violation. Yet one of the directors accused the platform of a “blatant act of censorship by political critics” who seek to defend “green capitalists.” Conservatives largely agreed with the director, claiming the movie was pulled [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Summit County is in the process of rescinding a 25-year-old conservation easement to pave the way for a housing development, a move opposed by land trusts across the state. Technically, that means the county will condemn the easement, just as it [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe South Lake Tahoe Mayor threatening no Memorial Day, no July 4th fireworks, and maybe no Labor Day Despite that El Dorado County has reopened, the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe is telling tourists to stay away or pay a $1,000 fine. The Tahoe Basin draws millions [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of the dusky gopher frog in 2018, it attracted press coverage around the world, because of two details that fascinated observers everywhere. One was the frog itself, a cute little thing smaller than [...]
by Myron Ebell, CEI Director, Center for Energy and Environment As Appearing on the Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog Researchers at Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health in late April published a draft or preliminary study that concluded, “A small increase in long-term exposure to PM2.5 leads to a large increase in the COVID-19 death [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Most of us grew up in a time when a person’s word was his bond, and deal was a deal. That’s still mostly true today, but not always. Some situations are more complicated, but shouldn’t be. In our “modern” era, a [...]
Maxine Joselow E&E News reporter When filmmakers Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs set out to make a documentary about renewable energy, they said their goal was simple: to tell the truth. "If we don't face the truth we're doomed. My camera will expose whatever and whoever needs to be exposed," Gibbs later wrote. But its critics [...]
