Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue V. Click on headlines for the full article. The Big Green Bust of 2014 by Clifford Smith, FME Law Counsel When someone has a lucky streak in Las Vegas, there comes a moment where some will decide to throw caution to the [...]
by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel When someone has a good stretch of luck in Las Vegas, there sometimes comes a moment where they decide to throw caution to the wind and put all their chips on the table. This past election cycle, the radical environmentalist crowd shouted “Everything on green 14!” Typical of a [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel Eminent domain, the process by which a government “takes” an individual’s land or property for “public use,” has long been abused. This is especially true today in Virginia. Too many landowners in the Commonwealth are facing an impossible to win situation when Cities and Counties come calling. Some localities in [...]
by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel In the blockbuster film “The Dark Knight,” Gotham City’s heroic District Attorney, Harvey Dent, first made his name as the head of the Office of Internal Affairs in the notoriously corrupt Gotham Police Department. In that position, he investigated corrupt payoffs and crooked cops, which made him a lot [...]
by Craig Richardson E&E Legal Executive Director On October 21, E&E Legal and FME Law once again sued the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under FOIA to compel production of key federal records. The records relate to FERC having conditioned its stalled approval of Constellation Energy’s merger with Exelon Corporation upon payment of a then-record settlement [...]
The 2014 midterm elections brought sweeping changes to Washington with the U.S. Senate switching parties, and the GOP expanding their majority in the U.S. House. Big changes on the energy and environment front were seen immediately as the lame duck session returned to the nation’s capital to attempt to finish up some old business. The Keystone [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue III. Click on headlines for the full article. Bootleggers and Baptists . . . and Hucksterism by Dr. David Schnare, E&E Legal General Counsel Thirty-one years ago, Bruce Yandel coined the phrase “Bootleggers and Baptists” to describe how these strange bedfellows work [...]
by David W. Schnare E&E Legal General Counsel Thirty-one years ago, Bruce Yandel coined the phrase “Bootleggers and Baptists” to describe how these strange bedfellows work together to corrupt the economy and the law. "Baptists" point to the moral high ground and give vital and vocal endorsement of laudable public benefits. Bootleggers are simply in [...]
by Cliff Smith FME Law Counsel From the beginning of the Obama Presidency, the Administration has gone to great lengths to portray any investigation into its behavior as an ideological crusade against them. As the scandals mounted, the firing of several Inspectors General, the Fast and the Furious gun running scandal, the false-identity Richard Windsor [...]
By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel Recent transparency efforts by The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) ran head first into the anti-transparency culture and institutional wagon circling that seems to pervade state funded institutions of higher education these days. The University of Illinois at [...]
