by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel Why does E&E stay so busy? Because forces on the left are always scheming to keep records of their work safe from public scrutiny. The latest example is a new report issued by the Union of Concerned scientists: Freedom to Bully: How Laws Intended to Free Information Are Used [...]
For Immediate Release: February 27, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Following Rep. Grijalva Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA Requests with Georgia Tech, Universities of Colorado and Arizona Seeking Records Relating to Researchers' Funding Washington, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), in conjunction with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic [...]
For Immediate Release: February 26, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Following Rep. Grijalva Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA Request with the University of Deleware Seeking Records Relating to the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), in conjunction with the Free Market Environmental [...]
On February 12, 2015, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) along with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic filed suit against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Freedom of Information Act. The suit is aimed at compelling the SEC to produce documents under a FOIA request filed on December 29, 2014 that [...]
Climate Daily News Significant construction delays and massive cost overruns at Southern Company's proposed Kemper carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Mississippi are creating problems for EPA's new source performance standards (NSPS) setting greenhouse gas (GHG) limits at new power plants, which relies on the project to justify a controversial GHG standard for new [...]
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 [...]
For Immediate Release: October 21, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, Free Market Environmental Law Clinic Forced to File Third Suit Against FERC to Compel them to Release FOIA'd Documents Washington, D.C. - The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), joined by the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law,) [...]
Jean Chemnick E&E reporter Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans released emails between the Natural Resources Defense Council and U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy that they say show the group and agency colluded on a proposal for curbing greenhouse gases from power plants... Also today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute and the Free [...]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org WATCHDOG ORGANIZATIONS REQUEST EPA INSPECTOR GENERAL INVESTIGATE COLLUSION, IMPACT ON GHG RULES Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic request EPA IG investigate undue “green” lobby group influence on major EPA regulations Washington, D.C. - Following in the footsteps of a [...]
