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 [...]
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,’ ” [...]
