Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow for the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and author of Junkscience.com, issued the following statement today regarding President Donald Trump speech on America's energy dominance. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute joins President Trump in celebrating American energy dominance and independence. Years ago, the science was settled, the world’s [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Caller The Trump Administration has proclaimed this week as “Energy Week” – a time to focus on pro-energy initiatives that can actually boost our economy, promote a message of U.S. “energy dominance” and highlight many disastrous Obama-era energy policies that helped stall [...]
by Tom Johnson New Jersey Spotlight The Trump administration yesterday formally began the process of repealing a rule that extended protections to small streams and wetlands, a step environmentalists warned could degrade water quality in New Jersey and elsewhere around the nation. The proposal, announced by the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Administrator Scott Pruitt during [...]
WASHINGTON -- Today, White House senior advisers are scheduled to meet about the future of U.S. involvement in the Paris Climate Treaty, even though President Trump made a campaign promise to cancel the agreement. Since December 2015, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has made the constitutional, political, economic, and moral case against the Paris Climate Treaty. [...]
by Barbara Hollingsworth CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – Supporters and opponents of Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are gearing up for what is expected to be a contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Wednesday morning... Craig Richardson, executive director [...]
by Darren Barbee Heart Energy After years of discord and conflict with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the oil and gas industry may finally have a ringer headed to the director’s chair at the agency. Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt, named by President-elect Donald Trump to head the agency, is in tight with companies such [...]
by Robin Bravender E&E News reporter Environmentalists are preparing for war against President-elect Donald Trump's reported pick for U.S. EPA administrator, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt... Energy & Environment Legal Institute President Craig Richardson also welcomed Pruitt's selection and encouraged him to "gear up for battle" because "draining the EPA swamp will be met with [...]
The President-Elect’s Transition team named me and others to the EPA Transition Landing Team today. This will upset some of you and will please others. My approach, and that of the entire transition team, is to be highly professional as we seek the information the transition team needs to create its action plans. Our job [...]
