by Chaim Mandelbaum Counsel, The Free Market Environmental Law Center In 1966, the federal government passed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), in order to give people greater insight into the operations of the government, and to allow them oversight on how the government spends their money. States soon followed suit and passed their own [...]
by Clifford Smith, FME Law Counsel (photo courtesy of humanevents.com) In 2008, Candidate Obama said that his energy policy would allow someone to make a new coal plant, but “If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for [...]
UVA/Mann Supreme Court Case On January 9, 2014, E&E Legal General Counsel David Schnare appeared before the Virginia Supreme Court to present oral arguments in our suit against the University of Virginia and former Professor Michael Mann regarding their refusal to turnover FOIA’d e-mails related to Mann’s “hockey stick” research. We are awaiting the decisions [...]
For Immediate Release: October 3, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, richardson@eelegal.org Introducing The Energy & Environment Legal Institute Board of Directors Votes to Change Name from The American Tradition Institute (ATI) Washington, D.C. - The Board of Directors recently voted to change the name of the American Tradition Institute (ATI) to The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E [...]
