by Jessica R. Towhey InsideSources A tweet war broke out this week between environmental activists trying to interrupt Chevron and ExxonMobile shareholder meetings and pro-energy and pro-consumer groups drawing a stark line about what they see as the stakes in the battle over oil exploration in Alaska. Leading the charge for the environmentalists was the [...]
Scott Waldman and Mark K. Matthews E&E News reporters As some Republicans inch toward climate policy for the first time in years, those in the party who reject climate science are getting nervous that a more permanent shift is coming. And they're going on the attack against their former allies. A group called Energy & [...]
by Zennie Abraham Oakland News The students that went over to San Francisco to protest the Bank of Montreal on Friday, did so on the basis of a lie. The Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (OBOT) is not a coal terminal. It’s a multi-commodity facility designed to accept commodities like iron ore, coal, and sulphur, [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe The bill would expedite CEQA litigation, when used to delay or slay a project A bill by Sen. Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) to expedite California Environmental Quality Act provisions and judicial reviews on many types of developments, exposed a divide [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com A report warns European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a "Siberian" climate. It sounds like something one might read in the news today, except this is from 2004 – and the warning is for 2020. The Guardian covered the February 2004 report, which it [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel There is an old Reader's Digest anecdote about a wealthy but absent-minded tycoon asking his top manager, "How long have you worked here?" To which the man says 30 years. He then asks, "How much am I paying you?" The manager [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe California’s Water Law: 55 gallons per person per day despite 200 percent snowpack California is abundant in natural resources: water, oil and natural gas, seafood, timber and minerals. Yet, the state has imposed water rationing on the state’s residents [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the The American Spectator Louisiana Senator Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree.” It was an apt description of our natural desire to make other people pay for things we [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe PG&E plan to cut power on windy days could leave millions in the dark, without power Following the devastating California wildfires of 2018, Pacific Gas and Electric recently announced it will cut power this summer to electricity customers on [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe Another regulatory onslaught aimed at California’s oil and gas industry California’s top environmental regulator, California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols, has stepped up the state’s war against the Trump Administration, as well as the state’s residents by threatening [...]
