by Alec Schemmel Fox News 'Congress needs to change the law,' former Trump admin EPA official says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading 22 other attorneys general in suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a new rule that would fine the oil and natural gas sector for methane emissions that exceed a certain [...]
by James Lynch National Review American Airlines violated federal law by putting employees retirement plans towards investment companies with environmental, social, and governance products, a judge ruled Friday, marking a major win for opponents of the progressive investing philosophy. Texas federal judge Reed O’Connor found that American Airlines violated its fiduciary duty of loyalty under [...]
by Kevin Killough Just The News ExxonMobil is continuing to push back against activists who have long demonized the company as "deceiving the public" about the impacts of fossil fuels. On Monday, Exxon filed a defamation lawsuit against in the Federal District of Eastern Texas against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups, [...]
by Nick Pope The Daily Caller The Biden administration dealt a blow to energy producers by arguing Wednesday that the Supreme Court should not intervene in ongoing legal assaults against energy companies across the country, but legal experts say that the recent filings will not meaningfully impede the Trump administration from taking a different course. [...]
by Nick Pope The Daily Caller Eco-activists sued the federal government to stop activity they did not like, but a bombshell Tuesday ruling in that case from a federal appeals court may end up weakening a regulatory system that has served environmentalists well for years. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled [...]
by Nick Pope The Daily Caller The Biden administration communicated about changes to a landmark environmental law with a major eco-group that is suing the federal government over the law in question, emails obtained by the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) and shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The emails, exchanged in May [...]
As covered on Junkscience.com:" The latest in Young v. EPA: Young’s reply brief to EPA’s reply brief to Young’s original brief appealling a lower court ruling that EPA is not constrained by law to conduct honest scientific peer review."
Steve Milloy, E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow, reports on Junkscience.com, that EPA has filed an appellant brief on March 31, 2023. Milloy's quick summary includes: 1) You can’t sue us; and 2) Even if you could, we can do whatever we want. While that is the standard government agency defense, I doubt that Congress intended [...]
As Steve Milloy, E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow, reported on Junkscience.com, Round 2 gets started in the only lawsuit that can derail the Biden EPA’s PM2.5 railroad. Read the opening brief of appellants Stan Young and Tony Cox. E&E Legal and Steve Milloy have a long history with the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Twenty-three states have now sued the EPA over its so-called “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, because once again, the agency is asserting federal authority over water not covered under the law. The lawsuit says the rule “goes beyond the [...]
