by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, David Schnare, general counsel of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, joins H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the collusion between state attorney’s general and radical environmental groups. Schnare talks about some of the work being done at the Energy & Environment [...]
by Annalee Grant SNL The U.S. EPA has denied five petitions that sought review of carbon emissions guidelines for new, modified and reconstructed fossil fuel power plants, noting that a troubled Canadian power plant using carbon capture and sequestration is operating just fine. The new source rule, published in the Federal Register in October 2015, [...]
Argus Washington, 2 May (Argus) — The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected industry and state requests that it take another look at CO2 emissions limits for new coal-fired power plants. The agency on 29 April denied five petitions for reconsideration of the regulations filed by two utilities, an industry group and the state of [...]
by Paul Driessen, Senior Policy Adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) As appearing in Townhall.com Have you ever wondered how the LA Times, Associated Press, Weather Channel and your local media always seem to present similar one-sided stories on climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy and other environmental issues? How their assertions [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute In the Climate Change Weekly released April 5 (CCW 209), I discussed the press conference held by a group of state attorneys general (AG), led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, threatening investigations and possible prosecutions of climate skeptics for speaking their mind. Just days after I wrote that [...]
by Bruce Parker VermontWatchdog.org Vermont has joined a multi-state working group following a climate change meeting of state attorneys general last month, but details about the newly formed group are being kept from the public... The first action to come out of that meeting took place on April 12, when coalition members held a conference call to launch [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged the Justice Department (DOJ) has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look into whether climate skeptics’ denial of the theory humans are causing dangerous climate change merits prosecution for fraud.. Lynch’s admission of the Justice Department’s investigation came in response to a [...]
by Julie Seymour MRCNewsBusters Galileo, the famous Italian astronomer and scientist, once said, “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Tell that to the UN IPCC and the news media. Presumably, Galileo would find the use of the so-called “scientific consensus” on global [...]
by Tribune-Review The question of collusion, supposedly by climate-change “deniers” and industry “exploiters,” is more appropriately directed to the Democrat attorneys general in their United for Clean Power campaign. Emails reveal that prior to the AGs' announced initiative, they received briefings from environmental activists... So while some state AGs demand that ExxonMobil come clean on [...]
by Margaret Price The Federalist Society The twenty Democratic AGs' (“Green 20”) concerted investigation against ExxonMobil (Exxon) and organizations deemed “climate change deniers” represents a threat to core constitutional commands of free speech, limited and constitutional government and the rule of law. This latest incarnation of regulation by litigation which seeks to punish climate change [...]
