by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A new study highlights how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is able to game the rule-making system to cloak contentious policy decisions as based on science. Susan Dudley, president of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, and Marcus Peacock, executive vice president of the Business Roundtable, published a [...]
On July 3, 2017, E&E Legal Attorney Mathew Hardin joined the Schilling Show on WINA to discuss our latest climate Related FOIA requests. Listen here.
by Ron Arnold As Appearing in the Canada Free Press Donald Trump’s EPA is facing a tsunami of vitriol for trying to drain the DC swamp of rogue regulators that rule with made-to-order scientific lies and invented threats, such as its ruling that the carbon dioxide which makes life on Earth possible is a pollutant. [...]
by Eugene Slaven Center for Freedom and Prosperity As congressional committees, journalists, and intelligence officials investigate the extent of Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, one important aspect that has thus far been overlooked is Russia’s financial ties to powerful anti-fracking and anti-oil lobbies in the United States.1 The evidence is overwhelming, even if the [...]
New York – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has been forced yet again to sue a New York governmental entity for failure to adhere to that state's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). This time it’s the New York City Comptroller, in a suit filed in the Supreme Court for New York County last week. [...]
by Gas & Electricity The “Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement” was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas company, and possibly other companies. It provides considerably more detail about the prosecutors’ legal [...]
by insidesources ValueWalk It isn’t often that global warming becomes a free speech issue. However, this may be the case in New York, where 11 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in federal court in support of ExxonMobil in late April. ExxonMobil is in the midst of a lengthy legal battle with New York Attorney General Eric [...]
by Seton Motley Heartland Institute New York Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is the hack-est of hacks. A Leftist ideologue to the point of derangement – and complete dereliction of his actual duty.Rather than looking after the legal needs of the residents of the Empire State, Schneiderman has spent much of his time tilting at [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller A conservative legal group claimed Monday that Vermont’s attorney general withholds public information requests from groups that appear friendly toward ExxonMobil. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan questions the motives of groups seeking access to public information, E&E Legal told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a press statement. The [...]
For Immediate Release: April 3, 2017 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org Washington, D.C. -- Last week, E&E Legal appeared in three courtrooms in a span of 24 hours in its continuing campaign to ensure public access to records generated by activist state attorneys general using their prosecutorial powers to stifle political dissent on climate change issues and [...]
