by Harry Cooper and Quentin Aires Politico Brussels “Follow the money” has become a well-rehearsed mantra used by lobbyists to question the integrity of civil society organizations. The latest attack comes from the U.S.-based Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E), which issued a report setting out the links between Fred Stanback, a American financier, and several [...]
by Brian McNicoll Townhall.com Ever notice how when people on the right speak about environmental issues, it’s always because they have been bought off by Big Oil or Big Coal or some other boogeyman, but when people on the left speak on these issues, it’s always seemingly out of the purest of motives? It turns [...]
by Morgan True VT Digger BURLINGTON — Vermont’s former attorney general has been ordered to answer questions under oath about the possible existence of public records that the state says are confidential. The legal decision Wednesday was a major victory for a nonprofit that is suing Vermont for records related to a probe of Exxon [...]
by Alicia Freese Seven Days Former Vermont attorney general Bill Sorrell didn’t show up Wednesday morning for a deposition related to a case brought by the industry-funded Energy & Environment Legal Institute, which claimed Sorrell flouted court procedure by skipping the proceeding. For more than a year, the Washington, D.C.-based group has sought records from [...]
Montpelier, VT - This morning, former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell ignored rules of civil procedure and failed to appear for a properly noticed deposition to take his testimony regarding his use of private email accounts to conduct state business. The case is about uncovering a scheme, revealed by public records requests, involving multiple state [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Foundation A federal judge ordered a former Vermont attorney general to testify about his use of private emails in an investigation targeting oil producers after the Democratic official refused to appear in court for a deposition hearing addressing the probe. Judge Mary Teachout, who serves on the Vermont Superior [...]
Burlington, VT- After a court order, nearly a year of legal wrangling and constant stonewalling about records relating to former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell's involvement in the scandalous climate-RICO cabal exposed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), Sorrell has now defied the Court order joining him to the lawsuit and refused to [...]
by E&E Legal President Craig Richardson As Appearing in MRC's NewsBuster On September 16, social media lit up with a Wall Street Journal breaking news report that the Trump Administration is seeking ways to stay in the Paris Climate Treaty. After working with dozens of other free market, pro-liberty groups for six months encouraging the [...]
by Todd Shepherd Washington Examiner The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is demanding copies of contracts and grants between the Department of Health and Human Services and a cancer research institute in Italy that Republicans say provided controversial and biased research that has led to incorrect decisions about the safety of some products. The [...]
Washington, D.C. - Today the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services seeking answers on the relationship between the Obama National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) and Italy’s Ramazzini Institute (IBR). The IBR, and its affiliate the Collegium Ramazzini, the received $92 million dollars worth of [...]
