by Darren Barbee Heart Energy After years of discord and conflict with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the oil and gas industry may finally have a ringer headed to the director’s chair at the agency. Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt, named by President-elect Donald Trump to head the agency, is in tight with companies such [...]
by Craig E. Richardson, E&E Legal President As Appearing in The Hill America needs to develop its natural resources within a framework of policies that protect the Earth through wise stewardship of the land. While the past eight years have yielded a windfall of policies, there has been little wisdom attached to them. Take for [...]
by Robin Bravender E&E News reporter Environmentalists are preparing for war against President-elect Donald Trump's reported pick for U.S. EPA administrator, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt... Energy & Environment Legal Institute President Craig Richardson also welcomed Pruitt's selection and encouraged him to "gear up for battle" because "draining the EPA swamp will be met with [...]
by Charlie Passut NGI's Shale Daily Oklahoma Attorney General (AG) Scott Pruitt, considered an ally to the fossil fuel industry -- and a longtime critic of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its alleged regulatory overreach -- has been selected by President-elect Trump to lead the agency... Energy & Environment Legal Institute President Craig [...]
“We are delighted with President-elect Trump’s selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Pruitt has led the charge in recent years to confront head on the enormous federal regulatory overreach proposed by the EPA as epitomized by the Clean Power Plan and Waters of the U.S. [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (VA OAG) seeking records pertaining to that office's participation in the New York AG Eric Schneiderman-led campaign against political opponents of the "climate" agenda. This follows the Virginia AG's release of unredacted documents it had been [...]
by Robin Bravender E&E News reporter The Trump transition team has filled out the ranks of its energy and environmental agency landing teams with fierce critics of major climate regulations. After a slow start in getting transition teams up and running inside energy and environmental agencies, the transition announced a slew of new team members [...]
The President-Elect’s Transition team named me and others to the EPA Transition Landing Team today. This will upset some of you and will please others. My approach, and that of the entire transition team, is to be highly professional as we seek the information the transition team needs to create its action plans. Our job [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Summer 2016. Click headlines for the full article. Documents Illuminate AGs Politicized Climate Campaign Against Exxon by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, as appearing in RealClear Energy On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states banded together in a political crusade to “investigate” and threaten to prosecute those who disagree with their climate change agenda, E&E Legal decided to pull back the curtains to expose what the states were really looking for, and what might have spurred these investigations, [...]
