by Matt Hardin, FME Law Counsel In the modern world, government employees increasingly turn to GMail, text messaging, and phone “apps” for personal communications. So long as those communications are personal communications, there’s nothing wrong with that. But what happens when government employees use Gmail to communicate with fellow staff about work-related topics? While federal [...]
by Tom Johnson NJ Spotlight President Donald Trump yesterday carried through on a vow to roll back key elements of the Obama administration’s efforts to combat climate change, a decision likely to have profound impacts on a coastal state like New Jersey. To environmentalists, Democrats, and other critics of the new president, the step is [...]
E&E Legal's Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, and Craig Richardson, President, issued the following statements regarding President Trump's signing of today's energy independence and climate change policy executive order: Steve Milloy: President Trump did Americans a great service today by issuing his executive order on the Clean Power Plan (CPP). By putting the brakes on the CPP, President [...]
by Penny Star Breitbart The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is looking into whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has mismanaged as much as $315 million in taxpayer-funded grants awarded to the Italian research group Ramazzini Institute, an “independent” science academy that focuses on occupational and environmental health threats. On Friday, the committee [...]
by Michael Bielawski Vermont Watchdog President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent would mean an easing up on the EPA’s notoriously heavy-handed enforcement and push environmental groups to reset their priorities. The spending cuts — which are light years from a forgone conclusion — would also put pressure [...]
For Immediate Release: March 17, 2017 Contact: David Sanders Sanders@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) filed suit this week against the Department of Health and Human Services. This is the latest in a series of E&E Legal actions centering [...]
On March 10, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Steve Milloy was on WJR's Steve Beckmann Talk Radio to discuss why and how to fix the EPA. Listen now.
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Mark Krebs As appearing in MasterResource ...With a renewed focus on energy consumers and less on environmental cronyism, DOE can gain new found respect from the American public and help drive a resurgent economy. With this purpose in mind, we offer the following [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller House lawmakers introduced legislation to block the EPA from appointing science advisers who are currently taking money from the agency. The bill stipulates EPA advisers “shall have no current grants or contracts from the [EPA] and shall not apply for a grant or contract for 3 years following the [...]
by Brandi Buchman Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN) – Fearing that the State Department helped organize climate-change activists before President Barack Obama left office, a coal-funded think tank has brought a federal complaint to access the agency’s emails. The group behind Monday’s lawsuit is called the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Read more.
