by Aubrie Spady Fox News One energy expert told Fox that "energy policy should be set by elected officials, not litigated into existence by activist lawyers" The climate change movement was issued a massive blow on Wednesday after a trial judge permanently closed a Democrat-charged lawsuit claiming that big oil was to blame for [...]
by Gregory Wrightstone, CO2 Coalition Executive Director As appearing on RealClearEnergy.com Smearing coal has become a marketing strategy of a natural gas industry that embraces pseudoscientific views of coal combustion as being hazardous. In so doing, gas supporters give credence to a fallacious regulatory regime of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which erroneously classifies carbon [...]
The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) joined the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and other free-market organizations in a letter sent to Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader Jeffries, Majority Leader Schumer, and Minority Leader McConnell urging the rejection of the Recovering Executive Compensation Obtained from Unaccountable Practices (RECOUP) Act. The letter, organized by CEI, pointed [...]
https://youtu.be/XO7deVmjgd8 From the Show Notes: In this new episode #91 of “Climate Change Roundtable,” host Anthony Watts leads a thought-provoking discussion with Heartland experts H. Sterling Burnett, and guest Steve Milloy of junkscience.com. This week, we had yet another shocking example of “scientists behaving badly” in the scientific peer review process. This follows on the [...]
by Steve Milloy E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder The (resistance) EPA staff continues to insist that particulate matter in outdoor air kills people. Today the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) took public comment on EPA’ most recent scientific assessment. Below are my (killer) oral comments that explain the entire PM [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) former head of policy described his private email account as a “channel” for “offline chats” with left-wing environmental lobbyists, according to newly released emails. Former EPA Policy director Michael Goo wrote to an environmental lobbyist in 2011 “if you want to have an offline [...]
by Hanna Nakano Legal Newsline WASHINGTON, D.C. (Legal Newsline) - The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute has petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to answer whether Colorado is acting within the bounds of the Constitution by placing manufacturing requirements on electricity that comes into the state. E&E Legal filed a Petition for Certiorari with [...]
The Economist (from the print edition) SUBSIDIES for renewable energy are one of the most contested areas of public policy. Billions are spent nursing the infant solar- and wind-power industries in the hope that they will one day undercut fossil fuels and drastically reduce the amount of carbon dioxide being put into the atmosphere. The [...]
by Drew Johnson Senior Fellow, Taxpayers Protection Alliance Detroit Free Press While running for reelection in 2012, President Barack Obama repeatedly claimed that he would pursue an “all of the above” energy policy. But after winning a second term, his administration seems to have decided that “all of the above” doesn’t include oil, natural gas or [...]
