Going Honest on GHG Emissions: The Milloy Petition (and early success)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 16, 2021 1 Comment

Entrepreneurship applies to public policy. It is not enough to just have the superior intellectual case. Against the Malthusian juggernaut, creativity is required to get past the gatekeepers of deceit and what today is called the cancel culture.

Enter Steve Milloy, founder of JunkScience.com and Senior Policy Fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal).

Milloy is truing the debate and achieving transparency with corporations that are “greenwashing” in the climate debate. The initiative is told in an August 13, 2019, Press Release, “E&E Legal Petitions SEC to Address Problem of Registrants Making False and Misleading Climate Change Statements,” reprinted below.

Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) petitioned U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to take action to prevent and prohibit registrants from making false and misleading statements with respect to global climate change.…

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WSJ vs. WSJ: A House Divided

By -- December 21, 2020 No Comments

“The news reporters give you public-relations fluff; the editorialists give you facts.”

Noam Chomsky, MIT’s famously anti-American professor of linguistics, used to say to his audiences something like: All my evidence comes from an ultra-Left source—The Wall Street Journal.

Audiences would laugh, but the joke was on them. Students of journalism know well that the Journal’s conservative reputation is based entirely on its editorial page. Its news pages, studies have shown, can tilt further to the Left than even the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Never was that schism more clearly displayed than on December 11, 2020.

A lead news headline screamed that the biggest “Green” companies were becoming larger corporations than the major oil companies. “The New Green Energy Giants Challenging Exxon and BP.”…

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Chevron: Oil and Gas is the Future (greenwashing not)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 2, 2020 13 Comments

“Speaking truth to Greenout Power substitutes economic correctness for political correctness…. Go Chevron! The global and U.S. market share of fossil-fueled energy is 84 percent and 80 percent, respectively.”

The loaded title: “Chevron’s Answer to Climate Change Is to Keep Drilling for Oil” (August 13, 2020). The condemnatory subtitle from Bloomberg Green’s Kevin Crowley and Bryan Gruley: “The energy giant believes it can still wring years of profits from fossil fuels while its European rivals embrace renewables.”

Go Chevron! The global and U.S. market share of fossil-fueled energy is 84 percent and 80 percent, respectively. And these percentages could well increase, not decrease, due to strong consumer demand for dense, reliable energies–and taxpayer fatigue for inferior substitutes (wind, solar, ethanol, batteries/EVs).

Fossil-fuel optimism is not only realistic but a great story.…

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Harassing Energy: The Latest in Climate Litigation (EID’s Allison nails it)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 13, 2020 3 Comments

This post by William Allison, After Multiple Failed Efforts, Climate Litigation Campaign Tries a New Strategy and Branding, part of the Energy In Depth climate and environment project, updates the latest in a failing, pernicious anti-energy strategy. The shame is that the same funders and activists should support mineral energies, not economically inferior and environmentally damaging wind turbines and solar arrays. Mr. Allison’s 1,500-word post follows.

“It’s been a whirlwind few years for supporters of the climate litigation campaign, who have spent untold millions of dollars and don’t have much to show for it. Multiple strategies have been employed with each running into trouble.”

After a bruising defeat in New York state court late last year, supporters of climate litigation have finally ramped back up with new legal strategies and new branding.…

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Plastics Appreciation Month!

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 2, 2020

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Lee Raymond, JP Morgan Win Climate Proxy Votes

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: May 18, 2020

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Houston Chronicle vs. Petroleum: The Latest

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“Petroentrepreneurs” are Environmentalists Too (DEPA tribute rings true)

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