by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Rodney Page’s first novel, a political thriller called “Powers Not Delegated,” follows a congressman learning how Washington works. He clings to his parents’ advice that “If you never tell a lie, you won’t have to remember what you said.” But eventually he develops “a [...]
by Matthew Foldi Washington Reporter President Donald Trump and his administration are receiving backup from a coalition of energy policy experts for their move to rescind an Obama-era regulation that Rep. Harriet Hageman (R., Wyo.) previously told the Washington Reporter is “the head of the snake for all of the challenges that we’ve had for [...]
by Audrey Streb The Lion The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pivoting from a long-contested chemical risk assessment program it notes Congress never authorized and critics say became a tool for targeting chemical facilities, including plants sterilizing medical equipment at the height of COVID-19. While the agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program was launched in 1985 as an internal library of chemical safety assessments, former agency [...]
by Sean Moran Breitbart Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers, now at environmental groups, have moved to kill the repeal of what is considered to be the “holy grail of the climate change religion.” Last July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to repeal the Obama-era Endangerment Finding, which the agency has sued [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Washington Examiner President Donald Trump on Feb. 12 announced the “biggest deregulatory move in history” — the Environmental Protection Agency rescission of the 2009 Obama administration EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases with respect to vehicles. It is a [...]
by Victor Nava, Taylor Herzlich and Josh Christenson The New York Post The Trump administration’s repeal of the Obama-era “endangerment finding” will lower car costs by an average of $2,400 per vehicle, the White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) touted Thursday. Here’s why. The action announced by President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin [...]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) led an effort of 20 free market organizations, including E&E Legal, to send a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin commending him for his leadership in 2025 and how we look forward to working together in 2026. The letter continues, in part: In your first year, you faced an incredible [...]
by Kevin Killough Just The News Among the groups from which the U.S. withdrew are two prominent climate organizations — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) President Donald Trump Wednesday signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of 66 international organizations, which the order says are [...]
Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, filed comments regarding the EPA's Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards The comments, filed on September 19, 2025 on behalf of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), began, "The endangerment finding should be rescinded because it is plainly illegal [...]
