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Top 10 Climate and Energy Action Items for President Trump
E&E Legal along with Heartland, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), Truth in Energy and Climate, and The American Energy Institute, recently released a document: “Top 10 Climate and Energy Action Items for President Trump.”
Is government going to the DOGE?
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
The mission of the new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) that he will co-chair with Vivek Ramaswamy, is not a joke, though. In fact, the idea of reducing wasteful spending has already achieved some level of bipartisan support in Congress. Leaders on both sides are saying no one should oppose efficiency, which is easy to say before anyone has had to vote on any specific program cut.
Loan or Bailout: Biden-Harris Admin ‘Loans’ Pacific Gas & Electric $15B to Combat Climate Change
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
The Biden-Harris administration will provide a stunning $15 billion bailout “loan” to Pacific Gas & Electric “to support the utility’s efforts to combat climate change and improve the power grid. Climate change. In 2019, the Globe reported that instead of spending on crucial infrastructure, PG&E was spending $2.4 billion annually on a legislative mandate to buy renewable power.
Climate Protocols: The ultimate entangling alliance
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
The “doctrine of unstable alliances” in George Washington’s “Farewell Address” underpinned U.S. foreign policy for decades and is still considered wise, though mostly ignored…What a long way we have come, not only subjecting ourselves to hundreds of international agreements, treaties and multinational authorities, but now using them to impose legal requirements on American citizens that Congress would never vote for.
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 is just cynical politics as usual.
Gavin Newsom Chases Another Oil Company Out of California
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it plans to close operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery late in 2025… This makes two oil companies that Governor Gavin Newsom has now chased out of California with his legislative attacks on the state’s oil and gas industry, as well as his recent legislation to decrease the state’s gas supply.
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