by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press With President Donald Trump reportedly pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, heads must be exploding in California’s Democratic supermajority State Capitol. However, Trump’s decision fulfills a very important campaign promise he made to “cancel” the accord. California Gov. Jerry Brown [...]
by James Delingpole Breitbart Should Donald Trump hamstring the U.S. economy, rip off the consumer, despoil the landscape, give succour to America’s enemies and promote junk science – all in order to keep a “seat at the table” with people who despise him and think he’s an idiot? To some people – including several senior members of the Trump [...]
by Chris White Daily Caller An activist-led measure on global warming at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s upcoming annual meeting could financially wipe out the company’s largest shareholders, one long-time Exxon shareholder said. BlackRock and Vanguard Group are toying with the idea of supporting an investor-created proposal that would force Exxon to measure how regulations limiting greenhouse gases could [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in Investor's Business Daily Which is the greater threat to oil and gas industry shareholders — anti-fossil fuel activists dressed in shareholders' clothing or oil and gas industry corporate management? It's a question that Exxon Mobil shareholders now have the opportunity to ponder before the oil [...]
by Ben Wolfgang Washington Times Newly released documents show just how badly the State Department wanted to get the U.S. into — and now to remain a party to — the Paris climate agreement that President Trump opposed in his campaign. As Mr. Trump meets next week with other world leaders at the Group of [...]
by Tim Ryan Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN) – Missing statutory deadlines drew federal complaints Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency both from conservationists and a coal-funded right-wing think tank... In the same court Monday, the EPA was hit with a federal complaint by...the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Amid reports of infighting at the [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller One of the wealthiest Democratic donors in the country was single-handedly responsible for making the environmental movement one of the highest grossing industries last year. Billionaire Tom Steyer contributed 85 percent of the industry’s contributions, or $87 million during the 2016 presidential election, according to a May report published [...]
by Gas & Electricity The “Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement” was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas company, and possibly other companies. It provides considerably more detail about the prosecutors’ legal [...]
by Jim Stinson PoliZette The White House canceled a second internal meeting Tuesday on the controversial Paris climate agreement. The cancellation is likely a sign Trump is still conflicted about whether to deliver on his campaign promise to withdraw the U.S. from the bargain or to listen to advisers urging him to spare the deal... Attorney Christopher C. [...]
by insidesources ValueWalk It isn’t often that global warming becomes a free speech issue. However, this may be the case in New York, where 11 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in federal court in support of ExxonMobil in late April. ExxonMobil is in the midst of a lengthy legal battle with New York Attorney General Eric [...]
