by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel The proposed ballot measure forcing introduction of wolves into Western Colorado has touched off another debate pitting ranchers and livestock advocates against proponents (primarily the Sierra Club and a coalition of outside environmental organizations calling themselves the Southern Rockies Wolf Restoration [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in The Daily Signal Some key House Republicans have chosen to support a Democratic bill called the Scientific Integrity Act. That nearly every House Democrat is a co-sponsor of the bill was apparently insufficient warning. Recently passed out of the House Science, [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel One of the largest and most powerful environmental industry groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRCD), has hired former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy as its new president. Although NRDC put out press releases, the hiring escaped the notice of nearly every reporter [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe PG&E is under the authority of the federal Bankruptcy Court The California mega-utility Pacific Gas & Electric filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy reorganization January 29, 2019. So it’s curious how Governor Gavin Newsom continues to publicly threaten that if PG&E doesn’t do what he wants, the [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a dairy farm cannot expand its operation, adding additional cows, without an “environmental impact statement” (EIS) analyzing its effect on global climate change. To be fair, there should be a similar legal requirement, [...]
by David Malakoff Science ...The draft document [of Trump's 'secret science plan], a version of which was leaked to The New York Times this week, supplements a 2018 data transparency proposal from EPA that was harshly criticized by scientific, environmental, and patient groups, prompting the agency to say it would issue a revision. Although EPA [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Attorneys send Gov. Newsom their plan for breaking up the giant utility The opening paragraph of a lawsuit names the California Public Utilities Commission, California Department of Water Resources, California Department of Finance Director Keely Bosler, State Treasurer Fiona Ma, and all of the CPUC Commissioners, [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe The Alternate Universe of the California of today belongs to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, and Nancy Pelosi “You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.” ~Gavin Newsom California was developed over the course of a century, yet it has taken only a [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it's for your own good? They need to study how houses burn, so they can build better computer models to predict future home fires. In the future, therefore, that [...]
by Jack Dini Canada Free Press A study of the Sierra snow pack confirmed that more than a third of the air pollution affecting California originates in China “One of America’s great but untold environmental success stories is that we have made and continue to make great improvements in our air quality, thanks largely to [...]
