by Callie Patteson Washington Examiner Leading off promises to “Drill, baby, Drill,” a new Trump administration is ushering in a wave of policies within the domestic energy industry, breaking away from the current focus on renewables. As the United States looks to lead in the races for artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and critical minerals, it [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the New York Post President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to be his secretary of Energy — and rare is the Cabinet nominee who makes more sense than this one. The 59-year-old Wright is an MIT-trained engineer [...]
E&E Legal along with Heartland, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), Truth in Energy and Climate, and The American Energy Institute, recently released a document: "Top 10 Climate and Energy Action Items for President Trump." With President Trump's historic return to the White House and his landslide against Kamala Harris, the American people have spoken [...]
by Tom DiChristopher CNBC HOUSTON — Clips of President Donald Trump extolling the virtues of fossil fuels played over a bed of soaring music, in the well-appointed hotel ballroom, as images of coal miners and the Statue of Liberty flashed across the screen. When the video came to a close, the audience erupted in applause [...]
by Alex Newman The New American Obama failed in his mission to make his "global-warming" schemes "Trump proof." Fulfilling some of his key campaign promises to voters, President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to dismantle huge swaths of the unconstitutional “climate” regime imposed on Americans by his predecessor. Among other important targets in Trump's latest executive [...]
Craig Richardson, president of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, issued the following statement regarding the confirmation of Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: America’s manufacturers, energy producers, farmers, ranchers, small business owners, and families have reason to celebrate today’s confirmation of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the next Administrator of the [...]
by Amy Oliver Cooke, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Complete Colorado Last fall, the media reached a new low. According to a Gallup poll, fewer than one-third of Americans expressed confidence in the fourth estate’s ability “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly,” the lowest since Gallup began asking in [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in The Daily Sentinel At the risk of repeating myself (this is a recurring theme), there are many examples of major environmental controversies that aren’t really about the environment. Far too often, adversaries face each other across courtrooms arguing not about environmental protection, but about [...]
by Stephen Dinan The Washington Times For a decade, he has used open-records laws to pry loose some of the EPA’s secrets. Now Christopher Horner is on the inside, part of President-elect Donald Trump’s landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency, preparing the way for the next administration. Perhaps no issue will see a greater [...]
by Kevin Bogardus E&E News reporter Christopher Horner, a relentless hunter of U.S. EPA documents, is now allowed inside the agency's walls. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a member of President-elect Donald Trump's agency landing team for EPA, the transition team announced Friday. As part of the landing team, Horner [...]
