by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel When someone has a good stretch of luck in Las Vegas, there sometimes comes a moment where they decide to throw caution to the wind and put all their chips on the table. This past election cycle, the radical environmentalist crowd shouted “Everything on green 14!” Typical of a [...]
by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel In the blockbuster film “The Dark Knight,” Gotham City’s heroic District Attorney, Harvey Dent, first made his name as the head of the Office of Internal Affairs in the notoriously corrupt Gotham Police Department. In that position, he investigated corrupt payoffs and crooked cops, which made him a lot [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue III. Click on headlines for the full article. Bootleggers and Baptists . . . and Hucksterism by Dr. David Schnare, E&E Legal General Counsel Thirty-one years ago, Bruce Yandel coined the phrase “Bootleggers and Baptists” to describe how these strange bedfellows work [...]
by Cliff Smith FME Law Counsel From the beginning of the Obama Presidency, the Administration has gone to great lengths to portray any investigation into its behavior as an ideological crusade against them. As the scandals mounted, the firing of several Inspectors General, the Fast and the Furious gun running scandal, the false-identity Richard Windsor [...]
by Cliff Smith FME Law Counsel What do you get when you put dozens of “green”lawyers together with nothing in particular to accomplish and more money than they know what to do with? Someone could be excused for thinking that this sounds like the start of a really bad lawyer joke. Unfortunately, it’s anything but. [...]
by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel When most Americans think of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), they probably think of the Great Depression and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal public works programs designed to employ the unemployed masses in the rural south. The program was popular and fairly successful in providing cheap power to area [...]
by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel On June 2, the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled regulations that require states to cut carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030. A radical, unilateral move that will cause energy prices to “skyrocket”, cost countless jobs, and disproportionally hurt the poor, it's not surprising that the Obama Administration sought [...]
by Clifford Smith, FME Law Counsel (photo courtesy of humanevents.com) In 2008, Candidate Obama said that his energy policy would allow someone to make a new coal plant, but “If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for [...]
