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Criteria Pollutant Emissions and Precursors Decline 7 Percent Under Trump

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Criteria Pollutant Emissions and Precursors Decline 7 Percent Under Trump

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/12/2020

The EPA today released its annual report on air quality, tracking the nation’s progress through 2019. The EPA reports that under President Trump (2017-2019), combined…

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EPA Proposes Rule to Increase Consistency and Transparency of Benefit-Cost Analysis

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EPA Proposes Rule to Increase Consistency and Transparency of Benefit-Cost Analysis

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/05/2020

The Environmental Protection Agency on June 4 released a proposed rule to increase the “consistency and transparency” of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) in Clean Air Act (CAA)…

Energy and Environment

SAFE Rule Examined Part 5: Statutory Issues

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SAFE Rule Examined Part 5: Statutory Issues

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/27/2020

This post examines some legal objections to the Final Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule and the Trump agencies’ rebuttals. Previous posts in this…

Energy and Environment

EPA Receives Comments on Proposed Revisions to Transparency Rule

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EPA Receives Comments on Proposed Revisions to Transparency Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/22/2020

The comment period on the EPA's proposed revisions to its Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science proposal closed on May 18. The proposal aims to ensure…

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SAFE Rule Examined Part 4 Consumer Choice

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SAFE Rule Examined Part 4 Consumer Choice

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/14/2020

Ccompared to the 2012 Obama administration CAFE rule it repeals and replaces, the SAFE Rule is deregulatory and pro-choice. And pro-life, too, if, as advertised,…

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Will the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report Rely on Increasingly Overheated Models?

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Will the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report Rely on Increasingly Overheated Models?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/11/2020

In a letter published in Nature, Jiang Zhu and Christopher Poulsen of the University of Michigan and Bette Otto-Bliesner of the National Center for Atmospheric Research caution that…

Climate

SAFE Rule Examined Part 3 Trump Agencies’ Critique of  Obama Auto Rule

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SAFE Rule Examined Part 3 Trump Agencies’ Critique of Obama Auto Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/11/2020

The Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient Vehicles rule contains a powerful critique of the 2012 Obama administration rule it repeals and replaces. In a nutshell, the…

Energy and Environment

Trump Administration to Grant One-Year Extension for Wind, Solar Credits

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Trump Administration to Grant One-Year Extension for Wind, Solar Credits

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/11/2020

The Trump administration indicated this week it will adjust tax credit deadlines to help renewable energy investors to help their businesses survive the economic crisis.

Energy

SAFE Rule Examined Part 2: Air Quality and Auto Safety

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SAFE Rule Examined Part 2: Air Quality and Auto Safety

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/05/2020

Today’s post examines the Final Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule’s estimated impacts on air quality and auto safety. Citations to the rule are…

Energy and Environment

SAFE Rule Examined Part 1 Climate Change and the Great Lockdown

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SAFE Rule Examined Part 1 Climate Change and the Great Lockdown

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/29/2020

It’s been almost a month since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Final Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient…

Climate

Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division Publishes Accomplishments Report

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Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division Publishes Accomplishments Report

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/24/2020

The Department of Justice’s Energy and Natural Resources Division published a report on Earth Day detailing its accomplishments to enforce the nation’s environmental, public lands, and…

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EPA Proposes to Retain Current Standards for Particulate Matter

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EPA Proposes to Retain Current Standards for Particulate Matter

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/17/2020

The EPA proposed to retain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter established in 2012. Environmental groups predictably condemned the proposal. However,…

Energy and Environment

GOP Climate Bill Does Carbon Capture and Storage Actually Reduce Emissions

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GOP Climate Bill Does Carbon Capture and Storage Actually Reduce Emissions

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/27/2020

The American Enterprise Institute this week published A Critique of the House Republican Climate Policy Proposals by AEI economist Benjamin Zycher. Zycher finds that the…

Climate

Ninth Circuit Should Uphold Panel’s Decision to Dismiss Kids’ Climate Suit

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Ninth Circuit Should Uphold Panel’s Decision to Dismiss Kids’ Climate Suit

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/26/2020

The Department of Justice urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stand by its decision to dismiss the so-called Kids Climate Suit on the…

Climate

Will Coronavirus Fuel or Derail Climate Agenda?

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Will Coronavirus Fuel or Derail Climate Agenda?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/20/2020

Fear and angst are contagious. With the coronavirus still spreading and the U.S. and global economies in danger of freefall, people may become more receptive…

Climate

Federal District Court Upholds Constitutionality of California-Quebec Climate Pact

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Federal District Court Upholds Constitutionality of California-Quebec Climate Pact

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/13/2020

On February 12, Federal District Judge William B. Shubb rejected the Trump administration’s constitutional challenge to California’s greenhouse gas emission trading pact with Québec. Judge…

Climate

Eleven Free Market Groups Submit Joint Comments on Proposed Updated NEPA Regulations

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Eleven Free Market Groups Submit Joint Comments on Proposed Updated NEPA Regulations

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/11/2020

CEI and 10 other free market organizations submitted comments supporting the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) Proposed Updated regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy…

Energy and Environment

New York Times’ Shoddy Reporting on Agency Skeptic

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New York Times’ Shoddy Reporting on Agency Skeptic

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/06/2020

The New York Times recently ran an article titled “A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research.” The fact-checkers and editors dropped the ball on this…

Climate

Appeals Court Rules Heathrow Expansion Unlawful, Citing Paris Climate Treaty

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Appeals Court Rules Heathrow Expansion Unlawful, Citing Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/28/2020

The UK Court of Appeals on February 27th declared unlawful the Department of Transport’s approval of Heathrow Airport’s expansion plans, because the government “had…

Climate

Report Misconstrues SAFE Rule ‘Rollbacks’

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Report Misconstrues SAFE Rule ‘Rollbacks’

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/20/2020

A recent Rhodium Group report purports to show by the numbers that the fuel economy “rollbacks” effected by the Trump administration’s forthcoming Safer Affordable Fuel…

Chemical Risk

Study Finds Strong Acceleration in Ocean Circulation

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Study Finds Strong Acceleration in Ocean Circulation

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/14/2020

As part of its “Climate in Crisis” series, NBC News on February 11 reported the results of a new study on “the undersea conveyor belts…

Climate

House Panel Hears Testimony on USE IT Act

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House Panel Hears Testimony on USE IT Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/07/2020

On February 6, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change held a hearing on the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies…

Climate

Fuel Economy Chaos – What Is it, Who Caused it, What’s the Cure

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Fuel Economy Chaos – What Is it, Who Caused it, What’s the Cure

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/05/2020

Automakers wanted easier rules and got more than they had the courage to ask for in the Trump administration’s Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Motor Vehicle…

Energy and Environment

Worst-Case Emissions Scenario RCP8.5 Is Dead: BBC

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Worst-Case Emissions Scenario RCP8.5 Is Dead: BBC

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/01/2020

BBC News last week rang down the curtain on the climate science fraternity’s long running malpractice of projecting climate change impacts using a worst-case emissions…

Climate

Study Projecting Net Carbon Dioxide Benefits through 2050 Defended

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Study Projecting Net Carbon Dioxide Benefits through 2050 Defended

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/28/2020

Last Friday on the Daily Kos, an anonymous blogger called “Climate Denier Roundup” (CDR) posted a hit piece on a new study by Kevin D.

Climate

New Study Projects Net Carbon Dioxide Benefits through at least 2050

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New Study Projects Net Carbon Dioxide Benefits through at least 2050

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/24/2020

The benefits of carbon dioxide emissions are likely to exceed costs over the next 30 years, according to a new study published in the journal…

Climate

Warmest Decade – Climate Crisis Still a No Show

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Warmest Decade – Climate Crisis Still a No Show

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/17/2020

Is there good reason to believe climate change a “crisis” endangering the survival of civilization and the habitability of the Earth? No. If climate change…

Climate

EIA Projects Renewables Will be “Most Used” Energy Source in 2050—but …

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EIA Projects Renewables Will be “Most Used” Energy Source in 2050—but …

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/13/2020

“With the rapid growth of electricity generation, renewables—including solar, wind, and hydroelectric power—are the fastest-growing energy source between 2018 and 2050, surpassing petroleum and other…

Energy

Year in Review 2019: Climate Policy

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Year in Review 2019: Climate Policy

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/27/2019

The Trump administration this year continued to dismantle key components of President Obama’s climate policy “legacy.”…

Energy

Dutch Supreme Court Upholds Climate Lawsuit against Government

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Dutch Supreme Court Upholds Climate Lawsuit against Government

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/20/2019

The Dutch Supreme Court on December 20th rejected an appeal by the Dutch government to overturn an appellate court’s October 2018 decision to uphold a lower…

Climate

Flex-Fuel Vehicles and Ethanol No Panacea for Energy Independence

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Flex-Fuel Vehicles and Ethanol No Panacea for Energy Independence

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/18/2019

Back in September, I posted a rebuttal to pollster Frank Luntz, who advised President Trump on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program to promote E85—motor fuel…

Energy

Down in Flames: Judge Dismisses New York Climate Lawsuit against ExxonMobil

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Down in Flames: Judge Dismisses New York Climate Lawsuit against ExxonMobil

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/10/2019

New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager today acquitted ExxonMobil of all charges brought against the company by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Climate

Wind and Solar Tax Credits: Special Interest Subsidies

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Wind and Solar Tax Credits: Special Interest Subsidies

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/06/2019

The House Ways and Means Committee on November 19th released a draft of its “Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act” (summary). The sponsors propose to extend,…

Banking and Finance

Activist Groups Demand Pelosi, Castor Implement Green New Deal

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Activist Groups Demand Pelosi, Castor Implement Green New Deal

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/22/2019

Two hundred fifty nine activist groups are demanding that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Chair Kathy Castor…

Climate

EPA, Progressives Clash over Transparency Rule

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EPA, Progressives Clash over Transparency Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/18/2019

The House Science Committee held a hearing last week titled “Strengthening Transparency or Silencing Science? The Future of Science in EPA Rulemaking.” Most of the witnesses and…

Energy and Environment

Will Trump ‘SAFE’ Rule for New Cars Harm Public Health?

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Will Trump ‘SAFE’ Rule for New Cars Harm Public Health?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/07/2019

Will the Trump administration’s auto rule harm public health? That’s what all five majority witnesses and several Democratic members of the House Oversight Environment Subcommittee…

Automobiles and Roads

Major Auto Companies Auto Dealers Back Trump Fuel Economy Rule

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Major Auto Companies Auto Dealers Back Trump Fuel Economy Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/29/2019

On October 29, Marlo Lewis testified before the House Oversight Environment Subcommittee on the Trump administration’s Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule. As he noted,…

Climate

Trump Administration Challenges Constitutionality of California Climate Pacts

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Trump Administration Challenges Constitutionality of California Climate Pacts

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/25/2019

Just when I thought the Trump administration could not get any bolder in challenging California’s self-anointed power to determine national climate policy, the Department of…

Climate

House Panel Holds Hearing to Bash Exxon

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House Panel Holds Hearing to Bash Exxon

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/23/2019

The House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties today held a hearing to examine “the oil industry’s efforts to suppress the truth about climate…

Climate

Repeal of Trump Power Plant Rule Fails in Senate

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Repeal of Trump Power Plant Rule Fails in Senate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/18/2019

The U.S. Senate today defeated by 53-41 a Democrat-sponsored Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval that aims to overturn the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule,…

Climate

United States, Carbon Tax Laggard?

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United States, Carbon Tax Laggard?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/17/2019

The United States “lags” other nations’ use of carbon taxes, ClimateWire (subscription required) reports. Specifically, the United States ranks 40th out of 44 countries in…

Energy

Environmental Protection Agency to California: Clean up Your Act

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Environmental Protection Agency to California: Clean up Your Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/27/2019

In two separate actions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week put California on notice that the state is violating federal air and water…

Energy and Environment

Progressive States Petition Court to Declare Trump Pre-emption Rule Unlawful

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Progressive States Petition Court to Declare Trump Pre-emption Rule Unlawful

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/20/2019

​​​​​​​A California-led coalition of 24 states and three cities today petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to declare unlawful the Trump administration’s One National Program…

Automobiles and Roads

Trump Administration Terminates California’s Unlawful Power over Auto Industry

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Trump Administration Terminates California’s Unlawful Power over Auto Industry

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/19/2019

Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the first step towards finalizing…

Automobiles and Roads

Trump Administration Pushes Back on California’s Fuel Economy Scheming

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Trump Administration Pushes Back on California’s Fuel Economy Scheming

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/10/2019

Since at least March 2018, the Trump administration and the state of California have been engaged in a legal and political struggle over the stringency…

Automobiles and Roads

CNN Hosts Seven-Hour ‘Climate Crisis Town Hall’ with Democratic Presidential Candidates

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CNN Hosts Seven-Hour ‘Climate Crisis Town Hall’ with Democratic Presidential Candidates

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/06/2019

CNN on September 4th broadcast a seven-hour “Climate Crisis Town Hall” featuring ten Democratic presidential candidates. Each of the following candidates was in the spotlight…

Climate

Ethanol ‘Flex Fuel’ No Solution for Climate—or Political Compromise

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Ethanol ‘Flex Fuel’ No Solution for Climate—or Political Compromise

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/06/2019

Pollster Frank Luntz discussed climate policy Thursday night with Laura Ingraham on her Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle.” In the previous segment, Ingraham interviewed…

Automobiles and Roads

Free-Market Groups Urge Reform of National Environmental Policy Act

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Free-Market Groups Urge Reform of National Environmental Policy Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/27/2019

CEI and five other free market groups submitted comments on the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Draft National Environmental Policy Act Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse…

Climate

Senator Bernie Sanders Releases $16 Trillion Green New Deal Plan

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Senator Bernie Sanders Releases $16 Trillion Green New Deal Plan

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/24/2019

On August 22nd, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a 14,000-word plan to implement the Green New Deal—a detailed blueprint to “avert climate catastrophe and create…

Energy and Environment

Climate Study Urges Blacklisting of Contrarians

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Climate Study Urges Blacklisting of Contrarians

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/16/2019

Authors of a study published recently in the journal Nature Communications want editors and journalists to blacklist “climate change contrarians.” Of course, the study doesn’t…

Climate

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