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 [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com Saying the nation cannot regulate itself out of climate change, a GOP lawmaker on Capitol Hill has introduced what he calls a "Green Real Deal." OneNewsNow spoke with someone who says the congressman is trying to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." "History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who [...]
by Chris White Daily Caller A parent of one of the children suing the U.S. government for not doing enough to confront climate change has a long criminal record connected to her attempts to derail energy projects. Her legal history has flown under the radar as the litigation gains more media traction. Jayden Foytlin is [...]
by Tomas Kassahun Legal Newsline NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – In a brief filed March 7 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said it supports the dismissal of New York City's climate change lawsuit against the oil industry. According to the DOJ, the appeals court should [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder Steve Milloy As appearing on cnswnews.com Liberal attorneys general may have just signaled their intent to sue the pants off the Trump administration just as soon as any of various proposals to rollback Obama climate initiatives are finalized. But if the AGs haven’t just undermined their [...]
by John O'Brien Legal NewsLine WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – As Congress vilifies chemicals known as PFAS, some question whether the research upon which lawmakers – and trial lawyers – are relying shows that anyone has actually been harmed by them. At the same time, law firms that spent big on Democrats’ push to reclaim majorities [...]
On March 4, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com founder Steve Milloy appeared on Fox News to discuss a suit brought by leftist Green groups who are using kids to push their political agenda. Specifically, "EPA Transition Team member Steve Milloy says children are being used by adults to advance a political agenda and they [...]
