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22 03, 2016

Press Release: Once Again EPA Senior Officials Using Private E-mail to Conduct Official Agency Business

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00March 22nd, 2016|Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Press Releases, Richardson, Scandal, Schnare|

For Immediate Release: March 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Recent E-mail Documents Secured Through FOIA Production Reveal Continued Pattern of Using Private E-mails Accounts -- Lobbyist Requests Senior Counsel Pass Lobbying Memo to Administrator's Private E-Mail Account Washington, D.C. – A recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted by the [...]

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22 03, 2016

SNL Financial: Court will not review claims ex parte communications behind Clean Power Plan

2016-03-24T16:24:08-04:00March 22nd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Suits|

by Annalee Grant SNL Financial When reviewing broader legal challenges to the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan a federal appeals court will not consider whether the U.S. EPA and several environmental groups engaged in alleged illegal ex parte communications. Conservative legal advocacy group Energy and Environment Legal Institute had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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21 03, 2016

Washington Examiner: Federal judges reject evidence against EPA

2016-03-22T18:09:21-04:00March 21st, 2016|Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, War on Coal|

by John Siciliano Washington Examiner Federal judges gave the Environmental Protection Agency a win on Monday, by rejecting a conservative group's request that they consider evidence showing how "green" groups colluded with the agency in developing the administration's landmark climate rules for power plants. The Energy and Environment Law Institute, or E&E Legal, said Monday [...]

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21 03, 2016

E&E Legal’s Statement RE: D.C. Circuit Court’s Decision to Deny Brief Illustrating Extensive Collusion Between EPA and Green Groups in Writing Clean Power Plan

2016-03-21T18:47:30-04:00March 21st, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Scandal, Schnare, War on Coal|

The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is extremely disappointed that the DC Circuit three judge panel refused to consider whether the EPA was improperly influenced by so called 'green' groups when the agency put forth the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that intended to "bankrupt" coal power plants and eliminate coal miners jobs throughout [...]

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14 03, 2016

Texas Public Policy Foundation: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Destroy Navajo Nation Jobs

2016-03-15T11:05:36-04:00March 14th, 2016|Clean Power Plan, Energy Poverty, EPA, War on Coal|

by Chuck DeVore, V.P. of National Initiatives, The Texas Public Policy Foundation As Appearing in The Daily Signal The federal government and their allies are choosing dubious environmental prescriptions to effectively impose a new tax on electricity increasing the costs of energy on all Americans and businesses. These added costs will especially impact middle and [...]

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5 03, 2016

Arizona Daily Sun: Profs’ emails on climate change ruled public

2016-03-07T14:11:47-05:00March 5th, 2016|Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Suits, Transparency|

by Howard Fischer Capital Media Services PHOENIX — An organization that is questioning the research behind climate change will get another chance to demand to see the emails of two University of Arizona scientists. The state Court of Appeals has overturned the ruling of a trial judge who said the university need not disclose 1,700 [...]

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2 03, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Winter 2016

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00March 2nd, 2016|E&E Legal Letters, Hardin, Mandelbaum, Schnare|

Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Winter 2016. Click on headlines for the full article. Supreme Court Halts Obama ‘Clean Power Plan’ by Chaim Mandelbaum, Litigation Manager On February 9th, 2016 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay halting implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency [...]

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2 03, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Supreme Court Halts Obama ‘Clean Power Plan’

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00March 2nd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, E&E Legal Letters, Mandelbaum, Suits|

by Chaim Mandelbaum Litigation Manager On February 9th, 2016 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay halting implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency regulations that would lead to the end of coal plants in the United States. The Court in, a 5-4 decision, ordered the EPA rule “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for [...]

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2 03, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00March 2nd, 2016|E&E Legal Letters, FME Law, Hardin, Transparency|

by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel There’s an old legal maxim that justice delayed is justice denied. In E&E Legal’s recent efforts to promote transparency and accountability, we have found that maxim rings true in the context of the Freedom of Information Act, as politicians and bureaucrats delay releasing records to which the public is entitled. [...]

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2 03, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Kelly Mader Joins the Board

2016-03-02T14:54:20-05:00March 2nd, 2016|Announcement, E&E Legal Letters, Mader|

At its Annual meeting in late January, the E&E Legal Board of Directors voted Kelly F. Mader to the Board. Mader has a long and distinguished energy and environment policy career, including serving as a Wyoming state senator from 1984-1991, and in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1982-1984. As a State Senator, Mader chaired the Senate [...]

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