by Nick Pope The Daily Caller The Supreme Court issued a major ruling Friday that curbs the power of the administrative state, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Biden climate agenda being among the decision’s biggest losers. The highest court in the land ruled by a 6-3 vote to overturn a legal theory [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel At the end of the classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” when Dorothy asks Glinda for help getting home, the good witch of the north says, “You don’t need to be helped any longer. You’ve always had the power.” This week I [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Most people are happier on weekends. We know that because a government study proved it. Without such studies, you may not know that people drive poorly when talking on a cellphone, or that the elderly cherish happy memories more than sad [...]
https://youtu.be/jiaOjOrZBnU On June 20, 2024, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow and Junk Science Founder, joined Jesse Waters on Fox News. He discussed the latest craziness from Leftists in their "climate" crusade, including a proposal to block out the sun.
Just The News The president has a lot of leeway to make many unilateral decisions on energy policy with far-reaching impacts on the industry, as Biden has demonstrated, but the flip-flopping between administrations creates regulatory uncertainty for the industry. Biden campaigned on a promise to “end fossil fuel,” and during his tenure, his administration, with [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 2006, Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking said, “Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming…” and suggested colonizing other planets to ensure the survival of the human species. Some [...]
E&E Legal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), and Truth in Energy and Climate released another version of "Climate Fact Check," this time for May 2024. The edition highlights sensationalized stories about the climate, which is typical for the corporate [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel California recently adopted a zero-emission requirement for all railroad locomotives in the state by 2030, which many critics are saying could cripple the nation’s freight rail network. That’s because California doesn’t have its own separate fleet of locomotives. So to keep [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Judges don’t weigh the correctness of an environmental report’s conclusions, only its sufficiency’ Judge Samuel T. McAdam of the Yolo County Superior Court denied an environmental lawsuit to halt the Sites Reservoir project, addressing the streamlined legal [...]
E&E Legal joined CEI and other free-market organizations on a May 30, 2o24, letter to Congress supporting a CRA resolution of disapproval on the EPA Power Plant Rule. The letter stated in part: The bottom line is that, for coal powerplants, 90-percent carbon capture is not an “adequately demonstrated” “best system of emission reduction” (BSER), [...]
