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 [...]
by Valerie Richardson The Washington Times Harvard researchers publicly walked back Monday a key finding in a highly touted but hotly contested paper linking air pollution exposure to deaths from the novel coronavirus, slashing the estimated mortality rate in half. The preliminary study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health made a [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A few years ago a popular bumper sticker, seen mostly on cars driven by environmental activists, proclaimed that “Trees Are the Answer.” Some cynics asked what the question was, but I thought the message was fairly clear, and I agreed with [...]
by Erin Voegele Biodiesel Magazine A coalition of 24 organizations, including Americans for Prosperity [and E&E Legal], sent a letter to President Trump April 28 urging him to waive Renewable Fuel Standard blending requirements for the remainder of the year. “The pandemic has underscored the need for permanent regulatory reform…” the letter states. “One area [...]
OK Energy Today About two dozen conservative groups are asking President Trump to go ahead and waive the controversial biofuel blending requirements fought by at least one small Oklahoma refinery and others. The groups sent the President a letter this week pitching their request against the Renewable Fuel Standard for the rest of this year. Twenty-three groups [...]
by Staff World Tribune Climate alarmists are using the coronavirus health crisis as a “dress rehearsal” for what they call the “climate emergency,” analysts say. “Even as Americans chafe under job losses and social restrictions, environmentalists see a ‘silver lining’ of falling global emissions while drawing comparisons between the pandemic and the ‘climate crisis,’ ” [...]
by Ken Blackwell, Former Ohio Secretary of State As appearing in the Daily Caller I’ve heard many shocking statements and watched many acts of outlandish behavior in my time as an elected official, activist and commentator, but the Left’s recent actions during the COVID-19 pandemic rank among the worst that I have ever witnessed. It is truly [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel This week the Trump administration released its “final” version of the new regulation defining exactly what waters are regulated by the federal Clean Water Act, under the section known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS). But is anything in government [...]
by Valerie Richardson The Washington Times Climate activists point to the reorder of society and the economy to resolve the coronavirus crisis and say the same thing can be done to fight global warming. Even as Americans chafe under job losses and social restrictions, environmentalists see a “silver lining” of falling global emissions while drawing [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on RealClear Politics Environmental activists decreed in 1970 that April 22 was to be commemorated as Earth Day. Fifty years later, if you listen to these activists, especially as they are fog-horned by the mainstream media, you might get the impression that [...]
