MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) A Vermont judge has ruled that the Vermont attorney general's office must pay nearly $66,000 in legal fees after it violated the state's public records law. The ruling Monday in Washington County Superior Court involves the AG's response to record requests made by the Washington-based Energy and Environment Legal Institute. It was [...]
CEI Blog Post On July 2, CEI published a coalition letter it coordinated and sent President Donald Trump urging his Administration to Reject the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. The letter began: The undersigned free market, conservative, consumer, and sound science organizations urge you to reject the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. This [...]
On June 27, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson appeared on the Joe Thomas In-the-Morning radio show to discuss the CA Federal District Court's decision to dismiss the shakedown lawsuits against leading energy companies. Listen here.
Craig Richardson, president of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), issued the following statement in response to the U.S. District Court of Northern California’s decision to dismiss the lawsuits filed against energy companies by the Cities of Oakland and San Francisco: Environmental front groups for billionaires intent on taking over this country’s energy [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Republican lawmakers are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inspector general’s office investigate alleged collusion between agency officials and lobbyists to undermine the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda. Four GOP lawmakers and the chair of a powerful House subcommittee want to know why EPA officials worked with trucking lobbyists on [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Is the Western Slope paranoid? During the decade I served as president of Club 20, I was often confronted by Front Range leaders accusing us of unfounded distrust. "No one here is ignoring the Western Slope," they assured us. We encountered [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XIX Spring 2018. Click headlines for the full article. EPA Chief Puts Science Back Into Environmental Protection by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Signal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt may be just a lawyer, but so [...]
by Craig Richardson, President The Daily Caller published an article yesterday that covered a memo showing Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalists, had a deep involvement in the attacks on ExxonMobil, despite the billionaire’s assertions to the contrary. The new memo indicates members of Fahr LLC, Next Gen, and TomKat Foundation met in November 2015 to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Both of my parents have taken time to write their childhood memories in the form of books they can pass along to future generations. As we get older, we tend to become more interested in family history, so genealogy is more [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel My friend Howard Propst is an inspiring speaker, who has made frequent presentations about American exceptionalism, pointing out how we fail to credit the astonishing achievements of a free society. We are introspective, always seeking to improve, but generally [...]
