by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A decade ago, three giant companies took advantage of federal incentives to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, known as Ivanpah. It was “the wave of the future,” a new technology that focuses 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors to reflect solar [...]
The American Energy Alliance (AEA) led an effort of nearly 30 free market organizations, including E&E Legal, to send a letter to President Trump, keeping the pressure on Congress to pass his "One Beautiful Big Bill" largely intact. As the letter says in part: As part of your commitment to achieving American energy dominance, you [...]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) led an effort of more than 50 free market organizations, including E&E Legal, to send a letter to the U.S. Senate to encourage "passage of three Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions rescinding Biden EPA waivers allowing California to reshape the nation’s car and truck industry, as the letter explains. The [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel An article in BBC Science Focus highlights the difficulties of “multi-tasking,” handling several things at a time, which apparently most of us don’t do very well. “In an ideal world, we’d focus on one task at a time, get it finished and only then [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The New York Times this week shrieked about congressional Republicans using what it called “an obscure law” and “a little-known statute” to rescind regulations adopted at the end of the Biden administration. The article refers to the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which is neither [...]
E&E Legal joined Heartland and more than 30 other organizations in a joint letter sent to Trump Administration officials and Members of Congress "urging action to counter a radical new European Union law that would impose foreign ideological mandates on U.S. businesses and erode national sovereignty,'" as notes a Heartland Institute press release. The letter [...]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) led an effort of 25 free market organizations, including E&E Legal, to send a letter to Capitol Hill to ignore the Biden Administration's last ditch effort to over-regulate tankless water heaters, as they tried with most appliances. As the letter notes in part: The Biden administration gave us many bad [...]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) led an effort of more than 50 free market organizations, including E&E Legal, to compile a letter sent to Capitol Hill to end the subsidies contained in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The extremely controversial legislation has nothing to do with addressing inflation and everything to do with funding the [...]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) led an effort of 25 free market organizations, including E&E Legal, to compile a letter sent to lawmakers to postpone any decisions regarding permitting reform until the next Congress. Passing such an effort in a lame duck session when the American people have clearly expressed their desire for REAL reform [...]
On September 19, 2024, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) joined nearly 30 other free-market-oriented organizations in an American Energy Association (AEA)-led effort to send a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives supporting a resolution disapproving the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) tailpipe emissions rule. As the letter notes: This rule [...]
