E&E Legal Letters

2 09, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Tom Steyer uses the Democratic Party to Advance his Self-Serving Renewable Energy Agenda

2016-12-11T17:07:00-05:00September 2nd, 2016|"Climate Change", Billionaire Scammers, E&E Legal Letters, Green Groups, McLaughlin, Scandal, Silencing Dissenters, Steyer|

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 [...]

2 09, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Oral Arguments Looms for Clean Power Plan

2016-09-02T10:32:13-04:00September 2nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, E&E Legal Letters, Mandelbaum|

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 [...]

2 09, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Climate RICO: State AG’s Attempt to Hide their Corrupt Crusade to Prosecute “Climate Deniers”

2016-12-11T17:07:00-05:00September 2nd, 2016|AG Collusion, Common Interest Agreement, Conflict of Interest, E&E Legal Letters, McLaughlin, RICO, Rockefeller's|

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 [...]

31 08, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Here They Go Again — To Hide Records, Agencies Pretend They’re Really Working for International Groups, Not You

2016-08-31T09:54:02-04:00August 31st, 2016|Conflict of Interest, E&E Legal Letters, Horner, Transparency|

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 [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Spring 2016

2016-05-26T10:13:52-04:00May 26th, 2016|E&E Legal Letters, Grimes, Hardin, Mandelbaum, Milloy|

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 [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Vermont Records Request Blows AGs Scandal Wide Open

2016-12-11T17:07:20-05:00May 26th, 2016|AG Collusion, Billionaire Scammers, Conflict of Interest, E&E Legal Letters, Persecution, Richardson, RICO, Rockefeller's, Silencing Dissenters, Stonewalling|

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 [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: E&E Legal Sues EPA for Stacking ‘Independent’ Science Panel

2016-05-26T09:47:12-04:00May 26th, 2016|CASAC, Conflict of Interest, E&E Legal Letters, Milloy|

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 [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Full DC Circuit to Review Obama Power Plan

2016-12-11T17:07:20-05:00May 26th, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, E&E Legal Letters, FME Law, Green Groups, Mandelbaum|

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, [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: George Mason Stonewalls CEI for Records Re: RICO Efforts

2016-12-11T17:07:20-05:00May 26th, 2016|Conflict of Interest, E&E Legal Letters, FME Law, Hardin, Scandal, Silencing Dissenters, Stonewalling|

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 [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Grimes Wins Press Credential Appeal Against CA Capitol Media and Legislature

2016-12-11T17:07:21-05:00May 26th, 2016|Conflict of Interest, E&E Legal Letters, Grimes, Inquisition, Silencing Dissenters|

by Katie Grimes, Senior Media Fellow Freedom of the press protects the right to obtain and publish information or opinions without government censorship or fear of punishment, whether or not government finds the material offensive, or disagrees with it. Free speech enables people to obtain information from a diversity of sources, make decisions, and communicate [...]

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