In a massive loss for the nationally-coordinated climate litigation campaign, a Maryland state judge dismissed the City of Baltimore’s lawsuit against energy companies last week. The ruling firmly rejects the cornerstone legal theory behind the litigation, explaining that state law cannot be used to advance national energy policy and address a global phenomenon such as
Read More...New Yorkers may be in for a new energy tax if Governor Kathy Hochul enacts climate Superfund legislation that attempts to stick energy companies with billions in new fees for alleged climate adaptation costs. The Superfund bill in New York comes as Vermont recently enacted a similar law, while states like Maryland and California discarded
Read More...The billionaire-funded climate litigation campaign against American energy companies has accomplished little in the near decade since its start, with the cases mired in procedural issues and setbacks along the way. Recognizing this, it appears the leaders of the Rockefeller foundations – the central strategists and financial backers of the lawsuits – have decided to hedge their lawfare bets and pursue
Read More...Explosive new documents have exposed details of the Rockefellers’ coordinated effort to convince the New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG) to launch an investigation into ExxonMobil in 2015. As Fox News reports: “Left-wing nonprofits quietly coordinated a first-of-its-kind investigation into Big Oil led by the New York State Attorney General (NYAG) years ago, sparking dozens of current climate lawsuits, according to
Read More...This Wednesday, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing to shine a light on the lack of oversight and ethics rules that allow billionaires to push political agendas through the civil justice system with little to no transparency. For a case study of how shadowy nonprofits and foreign billionaires influence litigation, and
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 15, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: fossil fuel use is growing, renewables require raising the price caps so you pay
Read More...NRDC Shill in PA House Aims to Starve State and Feed China Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Rep. Greg Vitali, whether he knows it or not, is acting as a shill for China by trying to kill hydrogen development in Pennsylvania if it involves natural gas.] Even
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – March 25, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week; the climate cult of faith, New York’s hopeless politics, yet another Rockefeller redux and
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – February 18, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week; the anti-industry industry, the LNG export boom, saving Europe’s butt and climate lockdowns. Look
Read More...Erlich and McKibben: The Original Green Grifters Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Paul Erlich has received a burst of new undeserved acclaim for being spectacularly wrong on everything. He and Bill McKibben are the original green grifters. Paul Erlich, the 90-year old prophet of doom who has lived long enough to see
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – October 29, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week; California EV fairy tales, German coal mining and Democrats who want to nationalize oil
Read More...NRDC Gang Funding Shapiro and Doing China Dirty Work Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The NRDC Gang, a Rockefeller family creation, is, as we pointed out four years ago, enmeshed with Communist China and is also throwing money at Josh Shapiro. The New York Post recently ran an expose with respect to
Read More...BlackRock: Just Another Name for A Dirty Cartel Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. BlackRock, the big bank that has more money than any nation other than the U.S. and China, is part of a dirty cartel being called out by 19 attorney generals. Vivek Ramaswamy, in his book “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 9, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 26, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
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