by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel In 2014, the United States Supreme Court held that Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act - which applies to all state and local government agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia - could exclude non-citizens of Virginia without violating the federal Constitution. Thus, Americans who do not reside in Virginia have [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On October 29, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed two petitions in the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals. These petitions asked the court to review the two key prongs of EPA’s “Clean Power Plan (CPP)”, a plan which will do little if anything to help the environment, but [...]
On the evening of October 27, sixty friends and associates gathered at the Reserve Officers Association, which is located directly across the street from the U.S. Senate office buildings for E&E Legal’s First Annual Gala. The event, which was emceed by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal’s Executive Director, served as an opportunity to showcase the work the group [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report California Governor Jerry Brown inherited the Golden State, the land of opportunity. However, everything he touches turns Brown. Climate change has been the top priority of his governorship… not the flailing economy, or California’s largest-in-the-country-and-growing poverty class, or the 47th in [...]
by Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer Cato Institute The Commerce Clause, while invoked since the New Deal as a warrant for progressive federal policy, actually provides protections for businesses against state regulations that burden interstate commerce. In Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority (1986), for example, the Supreme Court struck down [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller EPA’s Clean Power Plan limits carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Agency emissions standards for new power plants, however, are so low that only plants using CCS technology can comply. Republicans and coal industry supporters have argued that CCS is not commercially viable and EPA’s de facto [...]
For Immediate Release: November 6, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Citing Emails Obtained in FOIA Litigation, E&E Legal Joins Other Petitioners Seeking a Stay of EPA's Rules Regulating Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), joined numerous other petitioners - including 25 [...]
by Hanna Nakano Legal Newsline WASHINGTON, D.C. (Legal Newsline) - The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute has petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to answer whether Colorado is acting within the bounds of the Constitution by placing manufacturing requirements on electricity that comes into the state. E&E Legal filed a Petition for Certiorari with [...]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Petitions the Supreme Court Regarding the Constitutionality of Colorado's Renewable Energy Standards Washington, D.C. - On Friday, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court regarding the suit E&E Legal brought against the State [...]
by Steven Hayward Power Line As John noted on Friday, a federal appeals court has blocked for the time being the EPA’s brazen extension of the Clean Water Act. What about its equally brazen extension of the Clean Air Act into a lever for the de facto nationalization of the nation’s electric utility industry? It is facing [...]
