Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue VII. Click on headlines for the full article. E&E Legal’s Four Reports Expose ‘Climate Change’ Advocates by Craig Richardson, Executive Director 2015 has been a productive year for E&E Legal’s investigatory practice. Since April, E&E Legal has released four groundbreaking transparency reports that expose [...]
by Craig Richardson E&E Legal Executive Director 2015 has been a productive year for E&E Legal’s investigatory practice. Since April, E&E Legal has released four groundbreaking transparency reports that expose the hidden truth behind the ‘green movement’ and its allies in business, federal and state agencies, and nonprofit organizations like the Sierra Club. This follows on [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel E&E Legal recently obtained its first batch of Instant Messaging (IM) records from EPA. While E&E has been trying to obtain IM records from various agencies since 2013, we were never successful until now. Agencies claimed that the records didn’t exist, that the relevant software did not “capture” the messages, [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel In June 2015, the D.C. Circuit decided In RE: Murray Energy, that challengers to the EPA planned carbon regulation would have to wait until EPA released the final rules to bring legal objections to these harsh regulations. On August 3rd, EPA released the final version of its Clean Power [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue VII. Click on headlines for the full article. E&E Legal Launches Sierra Club Unearthed by Craig Richardson, Executive Director In early April, E&E Legal launched Sierra Club Unearthed, a special project of the watchdog group. The goal of Sierra Club Unearthed is two-fold: 1) [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel The DC Circuit will soon decide whether the EPA’s Clean Power Plan - which West Virginia’s Solicitor General says would "reorder the way we use energy, from plant to plug” - is constitutional. Regardless of whether EPA is allowed to go forward with this reordering, however, the Plan has already [...]
by Chaim Mandlebaum FME Law Counsel On April 30th 2015, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and WCVE PBS Richmond hosted a debate on climate change and the future. The debate was titled “Living with Climate Change” and it featured the Glen Besa, Executive Director of the Virginia Sierra Club debating with Dr. David Schnare, [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue VI. Click on headlines for the full article. States should reject Obama mandate for clean-power regulations by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Lexington Herald-Leader, March 4, 2015 The Obama administration's so-called "clean power" regulation seeks to shut down more of America's power generation under [...]
by David W. Schnare General Counsel EPA received over two million comments on its proposal to shutter about half of all coal-fired power plants using authority it claims it has under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. EPA calls this its “Clean Power Plan” and through the rule would require States to establish a [...]
by David W. Schnare General Counsel Eventually the will of the consumers will win out, regardless of the advertising to which they are subjected and even in the politically correct but economically stupid renewable energy business. The political and bureaucratic dynamics of the renewables market have worked toward supporting uneconomic energy like wind and solar [...]
