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26 04, 2018

CEI’s Lewis: Free Market Groups Call for Repeal of Clean Power Plan

2018-05-07T12:36:56-04:00April 26th, 2018|111d, Coalitions, Scandal|

by Marlo Lewis Competitive Enterprise Institute E&E Legal joined the joint comment letter Public policy analysts from 20 free-market organizations, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, today filed a joint comment letter in support of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s proposal to repeal the Obama administration’s so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP). “We strongly support repeal of the [...]

29 03, 2017

New American: Trump Takes Chainsaw to Obama’s “Climate” Schemes

2017-03-29T23:37:03-04:00March 29th, 2017|"Climate Change", 111d, Clean Power Plan, Media Coverage, Richardson, Transition|

by Alex Newman The New American Obama failed in his mission to make his "global-warming" schemes "Trump proof." Fulfilling some of his key campaign promises to voters, President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to dismantle huge swaths of the unconstitutional “climate” regime imposed on Americans by his predecessor. Among other important targets in Trump's latest executive [...]

20 09, 2016

Washington Times: Emails reveal collusion between EPA and green groups on crafting climate-change rules

2016-09-20T15:37:28-04:00September 20th, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency|

by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A newly released cache of government emails offers more evidence of behind-the-scenes collusion between the Environmental Protection Agency and green groups in crafting greenhouse-gas regulations, including an effort by one green lobbyist to enlist the EPA in fundraising. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute issued a report Tuesday based on [...]

20 09, 2016

Press Release: E&E Legal Releases Updated Report with New Emails and Video Detailing Extensive Collusion Between EPA and Green Activists in Writing 111(d), 111(b) Rules

2016-12-11T17:06:59-05:00September 20th, 2016|111d, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Press Releases, Report, Richardson, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: September 20, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today, after a long-delayed, nearly 500-page document production from EPA last week, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) updated its report detailing the degree to which EPA worked with outside special interest groups such as the Sierra Club, Clean Air Task Force [...]

2 09, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Oral Arguments Looms for Clean Power Plan

2016-09-02T10:32:13-04:00September 2nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, E&E Legal Letters, Mandelbaum|

by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On September 27, 2016, the entire United States District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in West Virginia, et al. v EPA, to which E&E Legal is party, challenging the EPA’s “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” rule under [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Full DC Circuit to Review Obama Power Plan

2016-12-11T17:07:20-05:00May 26th, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, E&E Legal Letters, FME Law, Green Groups, Mandelbaum|

by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Counsel On May 16th, 2016, the D.C. Circuit issued a surprise decision in the case regarding one piece of the ‘Obama Clean Power Plan’, ordering that the full Circuit Court would hear the case, instead of the three judge panel to which it was originally assigned to.  The case, West Virginia, [...]

2 05, 2016

Press Release: EPA Attempts to Bury its Exposed Misdeeds

2016-05-02T17:35:43-04:00May 2nd, 2016|111d, EPA, Press Releases, Schnare|

Washington, D.C. -  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) informed the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) that it had denied E&E Legal’s petition for reconsideration of the Clean Air Act New Source Rule (111b rule) for new Electric Utility Generation Units.   E&E Legal filed its petition on October 29, 2015 asking [...]

22 02, 2016

Washington Times: Clean Power Plan reset sought after emails show collaboration bewteen EPA, greens

2016-02-23T11:55:16-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A pro-energy advocacy group is seeking to incinerate the Clean Power Plan after releasing more emails showing a key Environmental Protection Agency official collaborating behind the scenes with leading environmental activists. In a 20-page report released Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute chronicles another round of communications between environmentalists [...]

22 02, 2016

EnergyWire: Group [E&E Legal] tells court EPA took ‘marching orders’ from lobbyists

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Ellen M. Gilmer EnergyWire Reporter As a throng of challengers file legal briefs criticizing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan as overreaching and unconstitutional, one group is stepping forward with a simpler, but serious, allegation: U.S. EPA let lobbyists write the rule. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

22 02, 2016

Daily Caller: ‘Captured’: EPA Let Green Lobbyists Write Its Global Warming Regs

2016-02-22T17:24:44-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, DOE, GHG Rule, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency|

by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The Obama administration basically let lobbyists tied to left-wing environmental groups write the government’s massive global warming regulatory scheme, according to documents obtained by a free market legal group. Attorneys with the Energy & Environment Legal Foundation (E&E) released a report Monday calling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a “captured” [...]

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