Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XVI Summer 2017. Click headlines for the full article. Paris Treaty Withdrawal Spawns ‘Climate Resistance’ Movement by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, and Chaim Mandelbaum, E&E Legal General Counsel In June of 2017 President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Law Counsel E&E Legal first sued the Vermont Attorney General in June of 2016, seeking records related to that Office's role in organizing a "climate-RICO" cabal among activist attorneys general, and private activists, targeting political opponents. Ordinarily, in public records suits, the law allows for a speedy resolution, because the law [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Fellow and Chaim Mandelbaum, General Counsel In June of 2017 President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the so-called ‘Paris Climate Agreement’. Paris was illegitimately entered by President Obama given it is, by its own terms, custom and practice, a treaty for United States purposes. This [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XV Spring 2017. Click headlines for the full article. Nixing the Paris climate pact by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, as appearing in the Washington Times Recent media reports suggest a conflict within the Trump White House over whether to keep the president’s campaign [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Counsel In the New York County Supreme Court in lower Manhattan, E&E Legal and several citizens groups recently discovered something remarkable: the New York Attorney General’s Office had corresponded with the scheduler for Tom Steyer, a democratic political donor, and Lee Wasserman, of the Rockefeller Family Fund, immediately prior to launching [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XIV Winter 2017. Click headlines for the full article. President Trump’s Clean Power Plan Executive Order Corrects Obama EPA’s Overreach by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Executive Director On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Executive Director On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan imposed by the Obama Administration. This order may temporarily halt the long running legal battle over the plan, thought it surely won’t end it. This directive by the President is critical in [...]
by Matt Hardin, FME Law Counsel In the modern world, government employees increasingly turn to GMail, text messaging, and phone “apps” for personal communications. So long as those communications are personal communications, there’s nothing wrong with that. But what happens when government employees use Gmail to communicate with fellow staff about work-related topics? While federal [...]
by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow In February 2014, acting on tips received, E&E Legal requested records regarding “climate risk disclosure” from the New York Office of Attorney General (OAG) under that state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). This “CRD” movement is part of a campaign to, in effect, coerce ‘confessions’ out of energy-related interests [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Summer 2016. Click headlines for the full article. Documents Illuminate AGs Politicized Climate Campaign Against Exxon by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, as appearing in RealClear Energy On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General [...]
