by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the American Spectator Geologists at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources warn that an imminent landslide threatens the homes of about 70 people along a sliver of land called Rattlesnake Ridge. Residents have been offered five paid weeks at a hotel, and most [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland The co-sponsors of a resolution calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen and review its finding that carbon dioxide poses a danger to human health and the environment withdrew the resolution from consideration. A resolution calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reopen and review its finding [...]
by Kevon Martis, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Midland Daily News My recent wind energy zoning presentation at Bullock Creek High School on behalf of the Ingersoll Township Concerned Citizens spawned an ill-informed op-ed by Peter Sinclair in which he accuses me of misleading and distorted statements and further questions my [...]
by Janet Levy American Thinker Much of the disagreement over the use of America's natural resources stems from confusion over the difference between conservation and environmentalism. Conservation, a rational, conservative approach to protecting and preserving the environment, is an ethic of resource utilization. Conservationists view man as a natural, invested partner in the endeavor to preserve the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report Environmentalists claim global warming can be mitigated, but only if humans are forced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This pseudo-science is what California’s leftist politicians have adopted to control human activity, and the unelected bureaucrats at the California Air Resources Board [...]
by Chris White Daily Caller New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has apparently not officially communicated with California about an ongoing probe targeting ExxonMobil, according to an email his office sent to The Daily Caller News Foundation. California’s AG office has toyed with the media for nearly a year about the possibility of joining the [...]
by Steve Hayward Powerline Readers may be vaguely aware that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and two other AGs filed suit again ExxonMobil alleging that “they knew” about climate change decades ago, but have been practicing “deception” ever since. These lawsuits all came with subpoena demands for thousands of pages of documents, no doubt [...]
by John O'Brien Forbes Some government officials in California are hypocrites pushing a political agenda that involves using private lawyers to sue and demonize ExxonMobil, the company is now arguing in a Texas state court. On Jan. 8, Exxon took the first step towards suing those who orchestrated climate change lawsuits in California by asking [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel There was a time when people unhappy with their government, and no longer able to tolerate the situation, would simply go somewhere else, and set up their own new communities. That is largely the story of the western frontier, but it [...]
by the Editorial Board Wall Street Journal Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order in 2016 on telecommuting, noting that letting public employees work remotely can “reduce transportation-related greenhouse-gas emissions.” And those emissions do add up, especially if you commute from Morocco to Washington—as the Governor’s senior climate policy adviser, Chris Davis, has done [...]
