by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transferred a top official who critics see as a key resistor of President Donald Trump’s agenda, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Christopher Grundler, director of EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, will be moving to another agency division in early August. [...]
by Michael McGrady InsideSources.com New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has announced she is leading the effort in the U.S. Senate to pass legislation forcing the Trump administration to comply with the Paris Climate accords. Known as the International Climate Accountability Act, Shaheen’s bill is the Senate companion bill to H.R. 9, or the Climate Action Now Act, [...]
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 [...]
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 Kaylee McGhee Liberty Headlines As congressional Republicans struggle to reach consensus on whether to pursue a climate-change policy in response to socialist legislation like the Green New Deal, some are urging the party not to address it at all. Citing President Donald Trump’s commitment to rolling back burdensome, Obama-era environmental regulations, a pro-energy group [...]
by Rich Peters Legal NewsLine HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – As the push to ban chemicals key to fighting fires continues across the country, it remains to be seen how successful alternatives will be. In the wake of a March petrochemical storage facility fire in suburban Deer Park near Houston, some are left wondering how a [...]
Mark K. Matthews E&E News reporter Alex Flint sent the email at 5:24 p.m. on a Tuesday, but it had the tone of a middle-of-the-night manifesto. In it, the conservative climate activist attacked one of the biggest barriers to progress on global warming — the continued denial of climate science by key voices on the [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Wall Street Journal Climate alarmism isn’t popular with the public, so Republicans don’t need an alternative. The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on a 57-0 procedural vote last month. Not a single senator voted to bring the proposal to [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders aimed at speeding up oil and gas pipeline permitting, including limiting the ability of activists and states to block key energy projects. Trump signed the orders Wednesday at an International Union of Operating Engineers’ training center near Houston. Some labor unions [...]
by Karen Kidd Legal NewsLine TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – New Jersey is ahead of the rest of the country in using private lawyers to sue manufacturing companies over chemicals known as PFAS, whose toxicity levels are still being determined by federal regulators while lawsuits stack up. In March, the state's Department of Environmental Protection [...]
