by Ann Purvis Heartland Institute After fighting a request for information for several months, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) responded to a subpoena from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. In June 2015, NOAA published a study in the journal Science claiming newly recalibrated temperature data adjusted to reflect [...]
Wall Street Journal Opinion States and businesses are suing to stop the Obama Administration’s anticarbon Clean Power Plan, and now they have new evidence to seek a preliminary injunction. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute has obtained government emails that show the EPA secretly worked with environmental lobbyists to craft its Clean Power Plan regulating [...]
by Kimberley A. Strassel Wall Street Journal Some scandals come on fast, and some creep up on Washington. The slow-rolling outrage of 2015—Obama administration secrecy—received a small correction in this week’s omnibus budget bill, but it deserves far more attention. It’s time for the federal government to come back on the grid. A steady drip [...]
by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) is investigating ExxonMobil over allegations the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change and to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business. The state’s 1921 Martin Act gives New York’s attorney general (AG) sweeping power [...]
by Bonner Cohen Heartland Institute An obscure, Maryland-based environmental group that has pocketed tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money over the past 14 years is at the center of a congressional investigation after posting a letter on its website urging President Barack Obama to use racketeering statutes against those questioning predictions of an [...]
by Stephen Dinan Washington Times Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa was explicit earlier this year when asked what it would take for developing countries to sign up for the emerging U.S.-led climate deal: “Money." His candor was recounted in an April email between two of the Obama administration’s top global warming officials, who called the [...]
by Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer Cato Institute The Commerce Clause, while invoked since the New Deal as a warrant for progressive federal policy, actually provides protections for businesses against state regulations that burden interstate commerce. In Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority (1986), for example, the Supreme Court struck down [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller EPA’s Clean Power Plan limits carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Agency emissions standards for new power plants, however, are so low that only plants using CCS technology can comply. Republicans and coal industry supporters have argued that CCS is not commercially viable and EPA’s de facto [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Democratic gubernatorial offices around the country have been relying on the same activist-drafted, cookie-cutter talking points when it comes to discrediting critics of the Obama administration’s global warming agenda. Documents obtained by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute and published Wednesday by The Washington Free Beacon reveal how Democrats circulated [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon Supporters of a controversial Environmental Protection Agency regulation commissioned Democratic pollsters to plot ways to attack the motives and credibility of the regulation’s critics, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal. Aides to a dozen Democratic governors and the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial advocacy arm circulated talking points and [...]
