by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Investor's Business Daily Hypocrisy, thy name is Barack Obama. The president has singled out industrialists Charles and David Koch for supposedly orchestrating a movement to undermine his agenda, especially the various "climate change" policies that he's pushing via unprecedented federal regulation. These policies [...]
by JV DeLong Forbes / Law & Regulation The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute is a D.C.-based advocacy group dedicated to “free market environmentalism through strategic litigation.” Recently, E&E has been examining environmental policy by searching public records and filing FOIA requests with state and federal agencies, and then tenaciously litigating over the resulting efforts [...]
by Susan Myrick, Civitas Institute As Appearing in the Chatham Journal Newspaper Raleigh, NC – WRAL’s Laura Leslie wrote about an Energy Forum held at the Legislature September 9 organized by opponents of renewable energy programs. (Translation from WRAL speak: opponents to taxpayer-funded renewable energy programs.) The central theme of Leslie’s article seems to be the famous “Koch Brothers.” [...]
by Marita Noon As Appearing in The American Spectator Most of us feel that time goes by faster as we get older. It does. When you are five years old, one year represents 20 percent of your life. Yet, when you are fifty, that same calendar year is only 2 percent of your life—making that [...]
by Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan Washington Times The Obama administration, top climate change crusaders and governors from across the country have engaged in a highly coordinated effort to publicly sell the president’s green agenda and put private pressure on opponents, according to newly released emails and other records obtained through Freedom of Information Act [...]
by Marita Noon As Appearing in Breitbart.com Failing to push its unpopular policies through Congress, the Obama administration has resorted to regulatory overreach—and assembled a campaign to use friendly governors and state attorneys generals, in collaboration with pressure groups and ideologically aligned benefactors, to advance the agenda... Presumably for this reason now-disgraced former Oregon Governor [...]
by Craig Richardson E&E Legal Executive Director 2015 has been a productive year for E&E Legal’s investigatory practice. Since April, E&E Legal has released four groundbreaking transparency reports that expose the hidden truth behind the ‘green movement’ and its allies in business, federal and state agencies, and nonprofit organizations like the Sierra Club. This follows on [...]
by Doug MacEachern, columnist Arizona Republic A day doesn't go by without our "letters to the editor" file flooding with missives about those wicked, old Koch brothers and their insane conspiracy to lay waste to the earth. Thanks, Mr. Soros! But Koch-obsessing is getting a little long in the tooth, isn't it? Especially now that [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow, and Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in Flash Report False claims about the success of California’s green economy have been front-page headlines for several years. Green tech groups, green energy investors, stakeholders and even green tech media claim California has [...]
