by Stephen Dinan The Washington Times The EPA and environmental groups are exceptionally close for a government agency and lobby groups, with a revolving door and pressure from the groups often shaping EPA’s policies, according to a new report from a conservative watchdog group based on emails obtained in a yearslong battle with the agency. [...]
by Mark Tapscott Washington Examiner Numerous senior officials of the Environmental Protection Agency have real or apparent "revolving door" conflicts of interest, according to a new report by a nonprofit watchdog. "Example after example clearly show that senior leadership in the EPA, made up exclusively of career bureaucrats and former, and likely future green group activists, operate [...]
by John DiStaso New Hampshire Journal In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club environmental group “collaborated” in writing a press release for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on her participation in a “Clean Energy Solutions Roundtable” featuring Club and EPA officials, according to a new report by a conservative think-tank. The Energy and Environmental [...]
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside 'green' lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question Obama’s EPA in collusion with “green” lobby groups — Report details the conflicts of interest, “unalterably closed minds”, internal activism and influence of outside interest [...]
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 [...]
by Cliff Smith FME Law Counsel What do you get when you put dozens of “green”lawyers together with nothing in particular to accomplish and more money than they know what to do with? Someone could be excused for thinking that this sounds like the start of a really bad lawyer joke. Unfortunately, it’s anything but. [...]
By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On June 5, 2013, the first of a series of news stories appeared revealing the extent of the information leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Ultimately, this information exposed a massive effort on the part of the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect “metadata” about electronic communications such as [...]
Today, the Free Market Environmental Law Center (FME Law) and the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a FOIA request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking "copies of all emails: 1) sent or received by either Jon Wellinghoff, or Norman Bay of FERC’s Office of Enforcement, 2) which use in either the [...]
by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal What have top officials within the Environmental Protection Agency been telling various environmental groups in their phone, email and text messages? That’s a question Chris Horner...can’t answer yet because the EPA claims it does not store this kind of data—in violation of the law. But it’s possible the National [...]
