by Chris Horner & Marlo Lewis, Jr. Competitive Enterprise Institute This week, White House senior advisers will meet to discuss the future of U.S. involvement in the Paris Climate Treaty. During campaign speeches, President Trump repeatedly promised the American public that if elected, he would cancel U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Agreement and stop [...]
by Jennifer A Dlouhy Bloomberg News As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers. A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy [...]
by April McCullum Burlington Free Press A lawyer at the Vermont Attorney General's Office is claiming a broad exemption from transparency laws to defend the denial of a public records request. Chief Assistant Attorney General William Griffin argued in court last month that work at the Attorney General's Office generally is exempt from state public-records laws, unlike [...]
by Seton Motley Heartland Institute New York Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is the hack-est of hacks. A Leftist ideologue to the point of derangement – and complete dereliction of his actual duty.Rather than looking after the legal needs of the residents of the Empire State, Schneiderman has spent much of his time tilting at [...]
by Chris White April 12, 2017 A conservative legal group is seeking communications from EPA officials who may have used a cell phone encryption app to prevent government oversight. Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday to obtain communications from agency employees who allegedly used the encryption app “Signal” to undercut President [...]
by Chris White Daily Caller A conservative legal group is asking Vermont lawmakers to punish the state attorney general for his handling of a public records request regarding a high-profile investigation into Exxon Mobil. Attorney General T.J. Donovan’s office decides whether to respond to public records requests for partisan reasons, according to the D.C.-based legal [...]
For Immediate Release: April 11, 2017 Contact: David Sanders Sandersdavidg@gmail.com Montpellier, VT - This week, legislators on the Vermont House Appropriations Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee meet to consider the budget for each Vermont agency. However, as the legislature considers the Attorney General’s budget proposal for his own office, recent events confirm that lawmakers should take a close look at the [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller A former member of President Donald Trump’s transition team is angling to block “nuisance” Exxon Mobil shareholders from forcing the company into adopting climate resolutions. Steve Milloy, a climate skeptic and Exxon shareholder, told reporters earlier this month that he intends to ask the government to scrap petitions entirely. He hopes [...]
Caledonian Record (VT) Editorial According to a report yesterday from VTDigger, “A national conservative group has taken the Vermont Attorney General’s office to court over allegations that state officials have blocked release of public records for political reasons.” The genesis of the dispute dates back to a time when Vermont and New York were sharing [...]
by Michael Bielawski VermontWatchdog.org The Vermont Attorney General’s office chooses which public records requests it will honor after Googling requesters’ political leanings, an attorney admitted during oral arguments in a recent transparency case. On June 13, 2016, attorneys for the Energy and Environment Legal Institute and Free Market Environmental Law Clinic sued Vermont’s attorney general for withholding public records [...]