by Amy Oliver Cooke, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Complete Colorado Last fall, the media reached a new low. According to a Gallup poll, fewer than one-third of Americans expressed confidence in the fourth estate’s ability “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly,” the lowest since Gallup began asking in [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in The Daily Sentinel At the risk of repeating myself (this is a recurring theme), there are many examples of major environmental controversies that aren’t really about the environment. Far too often, adversaries face each other across courtrooms arguing not about environmental protection, but about [...]
by Barbara Hollingsworth CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – Supporters and opponents of Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are gearing up for what is expected to be a contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Wednesday morning... Craig Richardson, executive director [...]
On Friday, January 13, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson appeared on the Alex Jones Show to discuss the group's recently released report, "The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert Climate Change Plan." View interview.
by Chris White The Daily Caller One of the wealthy groups bankrolling a year-long investigation targeting Exxon Mobil has a nearly 20-year history with the Los Angeles Times, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The working relationship between Nicolas Goldberg, who runs the LA Times’ editorial board, and the director of [...]
by Alex Newman The New American An unfathomably wealthy banking and oil dynasty has been hijacking governments, media organs, universities, non-profits, and other power centers to expand its control over the economy and the energy sector in particular, according to a recently released investigation by a watchdog group. That dynasty, of course, is the Rockefeller [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press Governor Jerry Brown has just appointed two radical environmental justice activists to the California Public Utilities Commission, replacing two commissioners whose terms expired January 1, 2017. Awaiting Senate confirmation, are Clifford Rechtschaffen and Martha Guzman Aceves—two Brown insiders with shady records [...]
by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal Just before joining climate change activist and former Vice President Al Gore for a press conference in New York City, seven state-level attorneys general huddled with a representative of the Union of Concerned Scientists. The political activist, Peter Frumhoff, called for them and other elected officials to move decisively [...]
By Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency has based its most onerous air pollution regulations on junk science meant to further political goals, says the author of a new book. Lawyer-statistician Steve Milloy’s new book, “Scare Pollution,” shows readers how EPA has distorted the science behind air pollution regulations to hamper politically [...]
by Kathryn Watson Daily Caller A loophole in federal law allows Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees and other federal workers get away with deleting millions of official records created using cellphone text messaging, according to government transparency experts. The Federal Records Act (FRA) and EPA policy allow individual employees who create and receive cell phone [...]
