15 07, 2015
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13 07, 2015
Tanton: A cautionary tale on energy
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Philadelphia Inquirer The idea of Pennsylvania doing things "the California way" doesn't make much sense. Unfortunately, Pennsylvanians may not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon finalize the Clean Power Plan, [...]
13 07, 2015
Grimes: De Leon Pushes CA Into Atmosphere of Climate Change Regulations With SB 350
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report A bill in the California Legislature is blazing through to mandate the reduction of 50 percent in the use of petroleum-based fuels, 50 percent reduction in energy use by existing buildings and increases the Renewable Portfolio Standard from 33 percent [...]
9 07, 2015
Fox News: Emails show party planning and more between EPA official, environmental groups
by Joseph Weber Fox News They worked hard, they played hard. Newly obtained emails reveal a seemingly close relationship, during and after work hours, between an EPA office and influential environmental groups -- showing a top agency official encouraged one such group to write an anti-coal report and even invited members to a summer bash [...]
6 07, 2015
Daily Caller: EPA Officials Caught Using Talking Points From Soros-Backed Group
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Emails obtained by a free-market legal group show that EPA officials may have been using talking points given to them by a policy expert with the Center for American Progress (CAP) — a think tank founded by Clinton adviser John Podesta and backed by liberal billionaire George Soros. Then-CAP [...]
6 07, 2015
Free Beacon: Center for American Progress Helped Craft EPA Press Strategy
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A prominent left-wing group helped formulate Environmental Protection Agency talking points designed to sell a controversial regulatory scheme to skeptical journalists, internal emails show. The emails show Joseph Goffman, the senior counsel of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, circulating talking points from Center for American Progress climate strategy [...]
25 06, 2015
Grimes: Pope Francis: Climate Change is Officially A Religion Now
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report Last week, Pope Francis called for a cultural revolution to correct what he calls the “structurally perverse” economic system of the rich exploiting the poor that is turning Earth into an “immense pile of filth.” Under the sub-heading “Climate as [...]
24 06, 2015
Heartland: Top EPA Official Coordinated With High-Powered Green Groups on Policy
by Emily Zanotti The Commentary & Policy Blog of the Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency has been working, for some time, to craft regulations on coal plants that would dramatically limit both their carbon emissions and their capacity to provide an energy source – electricity – to the majority of Americans in an affordable way. [...]
23 06, 2015
Grimes: California Will Achieve AB 32 Goals On Time – So Why Move the Target
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report Nearly every climate change and clean energy expert admits that California will achieve the legislatively mandated policy goals of AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which said the state has to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels [...]