by Michael McGrady The Heartland Institute The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is phasing out its special focus on pollution enforcement against the oil and gas industry and livestock producers. In place of heightened scrutiny on these two industries enacted under former President Barack Obama, EPA will broaden its anti-pollution enforcement efforts to [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Here's how our scheme will work. I am a federal regulator, and want to make a new regulation. However, the legal rulemaking process is complicated and time-consuming. Even worse, most people are actually against it, so it might not get done [...]
Energy Central News The local V.F.W. Post #1379 will host an informational session regarding industrial wind turbines next Tuesday at 6 p.m. There are two scheduled guest speakers for this October 2nd event. Kevon Martis is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute in Washington, D.C. Read more.
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Several articles began with an ominous picture of impending trouble: "In a move that's welcomed by Western conservatives but worries environmentalists, (Interior Secretary Ryan) Zinke has directed…" Dozens of articles in the past couple years featured similar leads. The words are [...]
Editorial Board Caledonian Record ...[E&E Legal] Attorney Brady Toensing said he still remains stymied in efforts to get {former Attorney General William} Sorrell to produce all of the emails and texts from his private accounts that Toensing says were required by the high court.” Sorrell - an enemy of your right to know - says [...]
by Mark Johnson VT Digger [E&E Legal] Attorney Brady Toensing says the only fishing expedition he’s interested in pursuing occurred in 2016 when former Attorney General William Sorrell’s cellphone — and all the text messages Toensing wanted reviewed — was ruined by water while casting in Connecticut. Three years after making his initial request — [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Fresno Bee The Trump administration wants to put you in a newer, better, safer and cleaner car sooner and for less money. In contrast, the state of California and its allies in the radical environmental movement want either to keep you in your [...]
H. Sterling Burnett, Interviewer Heartland Institute Under President Donald Trump, EPA has begun a concerted effort to end corruption and bring transparency to the science used by the agency to underpin regulations. EPA has ended the use of secret science, instilling rules to increase transparency and testability of the science used by the agency, has [...]
by Kevin Mooney Washington Examiner Green activists who have been working with their allies in government to take down Exxon Mobil and other energy companies are on a losing streak. Most recently, the Competitive Enterprise Institute published a trove of their emails with an accompanying report exposing their efforts to lobby state attorneys general to [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Flash Report The doomsday predictions of global-warming alarmists would have us believe there are more droughts, more extreme hurricanes and tornados, that arctic snow caps are melting, and all coastal cities are in danger of rising seas. Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny [...]
