Matt Hardin FME Law Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states chose to band together in a political crusade to “investigate” and threaten to prosecute those who disagree with their climate change agenda, E&E Legal decided to pull back the curtains to expose what the states were really looking for, and what might have spurred [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor In July, E&E Legal issued an extensive report, Buying the Democrat Party Lock, Stock, and Barrel, that details among other things that activist billionaire Tom Steyer is using the Democratic Party to push his self-serving carbon-free energy agenda in the political arena. A short video accompanied the report. Although Steyer is the number [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On September 27, 2016, the entire United States District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in West Virginia, et al. v EPA, to which E&E Legal is party, challenging the EPA’s “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” rule under [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states’ attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the [...]
by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow Another day, another federal agency whose bureaucrats, working on the taxpayer’s time and dime, using taxpayer computers and other resources, claim that certain of their work must be kept secret from the public because they’re really working for an international body (also funded by US taxpayers). This time, it is [...]
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 [...]
