by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel We may have discovered, accidentally, a way to give the most radical environmental advocates what they want. We simply shut down the government, or at least part of it (the National Park Service). The most elitist, anti-people concept is the "rewilding [...]
by Justin Farrell, Kathryn McConnell & Robert Brulle nature Climate Change Nowhere has the impact of scientific misinformation been more profound than on the issue of climate change in the United States. Effective responses to this multifaceted problem have been slow to develop, in large part because many experts have not only underestimated its impact, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel You can count on your 10 fingers the number of times the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously on any environmental issue. And you can count on the fingers of one hand the unanimous rulings on endangered species issues. In fact, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel If America's founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no president, they would quickly have chosen the latter. They knew all too well the abuses of an all-powerful monarch. But they also knew complex governments cannot be [...]
by Katy Grimes California Globe Editor & E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow Investigative Journalist Katy Grimes joins California Globe as Editor, January 1, 2019. Grimes is a longtime investigative political journalist, analyst, and author, and reports on the California Legislature and politics from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Grimes has been published in numerous news [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel A political mentor once explained to me why civility is key to long-term success, noting that "today's worst enemy may be tomorrow's only friend." The reverse is also true. Erin Mundahl, an Inside Sources energy reporter, writes about left-leaning green-oriented resort [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 1961, President Kennedy established a national goal “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” We did. Not long after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, President [...]
by Ellen M. Gilmer E&E News reporter Coal lobbyist Fred Palmer is joining the conservative Energy & Environment Legal Institute as a senior legal fellow. Palmer is a former Peabody Energy Corp. lobbyist who recently established the website burnmorecoal.com to advocate for the industry. He will continue his coal advocacy at the legal institute, focusing [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXI Fall 2018. Click headlines for the full article. Gov. Jerry Brown Vetoed 2016 Wildfire Management Bill While CA Burned by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in Canada Free Press Every governor has signed regretful legislation, or made a disastrous pardon [...]
For Immediate Release: December 17, 2018 Contact: [email protected] 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. - Craig E. Richardson, President of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), announced today that Fred Palmer, an energy policy expert with nearly fifty years of experience - most recently as Senior Vice President of Government Relations for Peabody Energy - has joined E&E Legal [...]
