by Alicia Freese Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice A lawsuit filed by a free-market nonprofit in Washington, D.C., is raising questions about how Vermont’s Office of the Attorney General responds to public records requests. Last summer, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute asked for information from multiple attorneys general about a potential multi-state investigation into [...]
by Anne Galloway VT Digger 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 Energy and Environment Legal Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., has sued over communications between the attorneys general of Vermont and [...]
by Jeff Stier Heartland Institute A pair of foreign research organizations have gotten numerous grants for work of unclear value As Democrats and the scientific establishment howl over President Trump's proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Congress is investigating whether that agency misspent U.S. tax dollars to fund two European cancer [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller A conservative legal group claimed Monday that Vermont’s attorney general withholds public information requests from groups that appear friendly toward ExxonMobil. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan questions the motives of groups seeking access to public information, E&E Legal told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a press statement. The [...]
For Immediate Release: April 3, 2017 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org Washington, D.C. -- Last week, E&E Legal appeared in three courtrooms in a span of 24 hours in its continuing campaign to ensure public access to records generated by activist state attorneys general using their prosecutorial powers to stifle political dissent on climate change issues and [...]
by Liberty Unyielding Staff Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt weighed in on an issue the Trump administration has been silent on since taking the reins of government in January. Pruitt said the Paris climate agreement was “a bad deal” that should have been treated by the Obama administration as a treaty, instead of [...]
by Julie Kelly & Jeff Stier National Review A pair of foreign research organizations have gotten numerous grants for work of unclear value. As Democrats and the scientific establishment howl over President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Congress is investigating whether that agency misspent U.S. tax dollars to fund [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller A Texas judge delivered a withering blow Wednesday against the attorneys general spearheading a years-long investigation into ExxonMobil’s climate research. Judge Ed Kinkeade peppered lawyers for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Massachusetts counterpart, Maura Healey, with questions implying their lengthy crusade is a politically motivated move to [...]
by Seton Motley Redstate.com 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 Julie Kelly National Review If the climate-change evangelist can’t be bothered to take a House hearing seriously, why should anyone take him seriously? In his testimony to the House Science Committee on Wednesday, Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, told the story of Trofim Lysenko, a plant scientist who worked for [...]