by Sean Reilly E&E reporter U.S. EPA has rebuffed a request for the confidential financial disclosure reports of an air quality advisory panel, saying they are exempt from release under the Freedom of Information Act on personal privacy grounds. Steve Milloy, a Washington, D.C.-area attorney, had sought the records for all 26 members of the [...]
by Thomas Richards Blasting News Washington state's Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) has a message for U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R): bugger off. At least when it comes to his state and its investigation of ExxonMobil over charges it tried to hide global warming from the public. Smith, who is the chairman of the House [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Spring 2016. Click on headlines for the full article. Vermont Records Request Blows AGs Scandal Wide Open by Craig Richardson, Executive Director On April 15, E&E Legal publicly released e-mails obtained through a public records request to the Attorney General of Vermont. The [...]
by Craig Richardson, Executive Direcgtor On April 15, E&E Legal publicly released e-mails obtained through a public records request to the Attorney General of Vermont. The e-mails showed that the offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), and other politically-aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists in their investigations against groups whose [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow On May 13, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for illegal formation of a key science advisory committee. The committee at issue is the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Particulate Matter Review Panel for 2015-2018 (CASAC PM Panel). E&E [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Counsel On May 16th, 2016, the D.C. Circuit issued a surprise decision in the case regarding one piece of the ‘Obama Clean Power Plan’, ordering that the full Circuit Court would hear the case, instead of the three judge panel to which it was originally assigned to. The case, West Virginia, [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Law Counsel E&E Legal isn’t the only organization that faces stonewalling when it files Virginia Freedom of Information Act Requests. Recently, our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) faced the same problems. Back in September 2015, CEI and Chris Horner, senior fellow for both organizations, filed a Virginia Freedom of Information Act [...]
by Katie Grimes, Senior Media Fellow Freedom of the press protects the right to obtain and publish information or opinions without government censorship or fear of punishment, whether or not government finds the material offensive, or disagrees with it. Free speech enables people to obtain information from a diversity of sources, make decisions, and communicate [...]
by Clarissa Hawes Truck.com An initial legal effort by an energy advocacy organization failed to block a meeting of an Environmental Protection Agency panel that is writing regulations to control particulate matter pollution. The Energy and Environment Legal Institute on Monday filed an application for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court in Washington, [...]
by Ann Purvis Heartland Institute The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Maryland electricity subsidy scheme on April 20, 2016, concluding in a unanimous decision, in Hughes v. PPL EnergyPlus, the arrangement impermissibly interfered with federally regulated wholesale electric power markets... David Schnare, general counsel of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, says he would [...]
