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 [...]
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI ) filed suit against the United States Department of State, keying off of a damning email obtained previously by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), to force this agency that is still stonewalling about the Paris climate treaty to release documents about how the Obama [...]
by Julie Kelly National Review Scott Pruitt, Trump’s EPA administrator, is the top target of the anti-Trump lynch mob. He’s enduring daily attack pieces in the media and threats of violence against him and his family. It’s hard to think of any cabinet member — current or former — who has been subjected to more [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will soon issue a directive to “ensure the independence and transparency and objectivity with respect to the scientific advice that we’re getting at the agency,” he said on Tuesday. Pruitt said he would issue a directive next week addressing potential conflicts of [...]
by Amena H. Saiyid Bloomberg BNA Scientists who have received EPA grants to the “tune of literally tens of millions of dollars” won’t be allowed to serve on the agency’s advisory boards, Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Oct. 17. The goal of this directive, which Pruitt will issue next week, is to ensure that the scientific [...]
New York, NY - The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) today filed a petition with the New York Supreme Court, in its ongoing attempt to obtain public records relating to Schneiderman's “climate-RICO” scheme from which nearly all former AG colleagues have fled after open records requests threatened to expose the use of law enforcement offices [...]
by Todd Shepherd Washington Examiner The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is demanding copies of contracts and grants between the Department of Health and Human Services and a cancer research institute in Italy that Republicans say provided controversial and biased research that has led to incorrect decisions about the safety of some products. The [...]
Washington, D.C. - Today the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services seeking answers on the relationship between the Obama National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) and Italy’s Ramazzini Institute (IBR). The IBR, and its affiliate the Collegium Ramazzini, the received $92 million dollars worth of [...]
Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed suit today against the Department of Health and Human Services. This is the latest in a series of E&E Legal actions centering on the complex questions surrounding the agricultural chemical glyphosate, a recent target of environmentalist activists and, it seems, friends in government and academia. [...]
by Stephan Dinan Washington Times Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who used a secret email alias during her time at the agency, lashed out Tuesday at the Trump administration for destroying the agency’s credibility by being “non-transparent.”... In Ms. Jackson’s case, she used the alias “Richard Windsor” for her official EPA email account — including [...]
