by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1970 when President Nixon presented to Congress “Reorganization Plan No. 3,” no one foresaw the eventual result — some of history’s greatest environmental successes, and a virtual stranglehold on economic progress. America’s air and water are far cleaner today, automobiles emit virtually nothing, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The New Seekers are best remembered for wanting to buy the world a Coke in their classic hit, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.” But a year earlier, they first hit the charts with another standard, “Look What They’ve Done to My [...]
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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Last week, the Senate passed three Congressional Review Act resolutions overturning BLM resource management plans. What would have been called an earth-shattering precedent not so long ago was this time hardly noticed except by those who closely follow Interior and energy issues. The Biden-era [...]
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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel All my adult life, presidents have talked about energy independence. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan — even presidents like Biden and Obama, who did everything they could to stop domestic energy production. But on both sides, changing policies is said to be as difficult as [...]
