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ExxonMobil Gets the Leftist Tiger in Its Tank
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing on RealClear Energy
Control over one-third of ExxonMobil’s board of directors was captured by climate activists at the recent annual shareholder meeting. Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins dismissed the astonishing accomplishment as a “peudo-event” — one “arranged or brought about merely for the sake of the publicity it generates.” That is just wrong.
20% of CA Electric Vehicle Owners Replaced Cars with Gas Ones
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as Appearing in the California Globe
With California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandated phase-out of gas-powered automobiles, we learn that one in five plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners switched back to owning gas-powered cars, because charging the batteries was a hassle, new research reports.
Where do you plug this in?
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
A friend who bought a Tesla electric car was understandably proud, joining the green revolution with such a cool car. For a while I made fun of it, telling him my car ran on oil and his on coal, so we both produced a similar carbon footprint. Then, after a year, he suddenly traded it in, and not for another electric.
Biden’s Climate Road to Nowhere
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing on InsideSources
President Joe Biden is proposing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on various “climate-related” projects as part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. As public debate over the proposal develops, the Biden administration should be compelled to provide clear answers to three questions.
If CA is Facing a Mega-Drought, Why is it Releasing Water
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as Appearing in the California Globe
Last week, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom was in Oroville, with a 60% empty Oroville Dam Reservoir as his backdrop, he said he is not ready to declare an official drought emergency…Maybe someone can ask the governor why in the last two weeks, 91% of Delta inflow went to the sea.
Milloy Calls on ExxonMobil CEO to Resign Over Greenwashing
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing on Junkscience.com
In May, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder Steve Milloy once again appeared at the ExxonMobil Annual Stockholder Meeting. As a stockholder, he put forth a proposal seeking to reign in the company’s expensive and damaging greenwashing programs.
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