by Chris White The Daily Caller The New York attorney general engaging in a highly publicized probe into oil producer ExxonMobil solicited meetings from an influential billionaire Democratic donor, according to emails obtained Monday by the New York Post. Four months after announcing the Exxon investigation, Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tried to finagle meetings [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A former senior EPA official known for coordinating with environmentalists slammed the White House for pushing back on agency plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas, text messages show. Michael Goo, EPA’s policy chief at the time, texted Sierra Club lobbyist John Coequyt that if environmentalists “want [...]
by Becky Fenger The Heartland Institute As our nation marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Towers, I again ask the question: How long will Americans allow misguided environmentalism and bureaucratic complacency to endanger the lives of our citizens?... Three days after the Twin Towers’ disaster, Steve Milloy – publisher [...]
by Brian Freeman Newsmax.com A senior Environmental Protection Agency official used an expletive — a term for male genitalia used to describe a foolish or contemptible person — when he called those in the White House who resist efforts to regulate fracking "********," according to a report in The Washington Free Beacon. In a text [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A senior Environmental Protection Agency official privately complained about “dickheads” in the White House who resisted efforts to regulate an innovative oil and gas extraction technique, newly released documents show. Michael Goo, then the EPA’s policy chief, complained to a Sierra Club lobbyist that the White House Office of [...]
by Joe Bast, president & CEO Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been twisting science and epidemiology to fit an extreme environmental agenda for years, but finally, finally!, it may be about to be hoisted with its own petard. Assuming, that is, that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) doesn’t ignore its legal [...]
by Jeff Stier The Observer With his latest plan to punish even thoughts and speech related to climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has raised the eyebrows of even his fellow climate-change activist Democrat attorneys general (AG). Officials from a number of state AG offices expressed anxiety about Schneiderman’s controversial plan to investigate [...]
For Immediate Release: September 6, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, Sept. 6 – On Thursday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute learned that the Washington-based Free Market Environmental Law Clinic filed an appeal to a “no records” response from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Having led several high-profile open records investigations in recent years, [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Summer 2016. Click headlines for the full article. Climate RICO: State AG's Attempt to Hide their Corrupt Crusade to Prosecute “Climate Deniers” by David McLaughlin, Strategic Research Supervisor Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing [...]
Matt Hardin FME Law Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states chose to band 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 [...]
