by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Referring to the president’s annual budget proposal to Congress, a Bloomberg headline read: “Trump Plans to Offload National Park Sites, But States Don’t Want Them.” Really? I couldn’t help wondering why we have national parks that states don’t want. Without state support, how did [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Supreme Court decisions occasionally have far-reaching impacts, but last week’s ruling in Utah’s Uintah Basin Railway case was a doozy, in which the justices unanimously hinted that Eagle County, Colorado, should mind its own business. County Commissioners there had challenged the Surface Transportation Board’s [...]
Just The News The Supreme Court Friday issued a ruling that will limit federal agencies’ sweeping regulatory power. Libertarians and conservatives have hailed the decision as increasing individual liberty and reducing the power of bureaucrats over Americans' lives. In a 6-3 decision, the justices vacated a 1984 doctrine known as "Chevron deference," which allows federal [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in The Washington Examiner As climate activists wail in the wake of the setback to their agenda recently delivered by the Supreme Court in its West Virginia v. EPA decision, the rest of us should be grateful that the costly and out-of-control federal [...]
by James Murphy The New American This week, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan warned that portions of the United States could be “swallowed by the ocean” in the next generation. Kagan made the remark in her dissent on the West Virginia v. EPA decision, which read more like a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
The ITT crew talks about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Also, the left in response is having a collective meltdown. The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and S.T. Karnick are joined by Steve Milloy, creator and publisher of JunkScience.com, for episode 352 of [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California Gov. Newsom defiantly vows to double down on California’s climate change policies “Friday marked 100 days of diddling by California’s supermajority party to provide relief at the pump for the state’s drivers from the record high gas [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The right to exclude is ‘one of the most treasured’ rights of property ownership The United States Supreme Court just affirmed Wednesday that the government cannot force people to allow third parties to trespass on their property. [...]
