by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A former senior EPA official known for coordinating with environmentalists slammed the White House for pushing back on agency plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas, text messages show. Michael Goo, EPA’s policy chief at the time, texted Sierra Club lobbyist John Coequyt that if environmentalists “want [...]
by Brian Freeman Newsmax.com A senior Environmental Protection Agency official used an expletive — a term for male genitalia used to describe a foolish or contemptible person — when he called those in the White House who resist efforts to regulate fracking "********," according to a report in The Washington Free Beacon. In a text [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A senior Environmental Protection Agency official privately complained about “dickheads” in the White House who resisted efforts to regulate an innovative oil and gas extraction technique, newly released documents show. Michael Goo, then the EPA’s policy chief, complained to a Sierra Club lobbyist that the White House Office of [...]
Matt Hardin FME Law Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states chose to band together in a political crusade to “investigate” and threaten to prosecute those who disagree with their climate change agenda, E&E Legal decided to pull back the curtains to expose what the states were really looking for, and what might have spurred [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor In July, E&E Legal issued an extensive report, Buying the Democrat Party Lock, Stock, and Barrel, that details among other things that activist billionaire Tom Steyer is using the Democratic Party to push his self-serving carbon-free energy agenda in the political arena. A short video accompanied the report. Although Steyer is the number [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute With other state attorneys general ultimately failing to support New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s investigation of Exxon for its past climate research, the New York Post reports Schneiderman is shifting the focus of his (illegal) legal assault... Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (EELI) [...]
For Immediate Release: August 4, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 State AG ‘Secrecy Pact’ Aimed at Thwarting Transparency Laws Released; E&E Legal Obtains Document From DC Following Litigation Washington D.C. -The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has obtained a copy of the purported “Common Interest Agreement” led by New York’s Attorney General [...]
by Alatheia Nielsen MRC News Buster When Democrats unveiled their new party platform at the DNC, it read like the mission statement from Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate PAC. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute first identified the similarities in a July 25 report, calling them “policy plagiarism.” The report also called Tom Steyer “the most [...]
For Immediate Release: July 26, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Unveils Short Video to Accompany Previously Released Investigatory Report Regarding Billionaire Tom Steyer Efforts to Bankroll Elections and Stifle 'Climate Change' Debate to Protect his Solar Investments Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group, unveiled a short [...]
For Immediate Release: July 25, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Latest E&E Legal Investigatory Report Details Efforts by Billionaire Tom Steyer to Bankroll Elections and Stifle 'Climate Change' Debate to Protect his Solar Investments Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group, released a report, Buying the Democrat [...]
