by Steven Hayward The Weekly Standard Magazine Over the years, “agency capture” has been a staple of the economic analysis of regulation—the phenomenon whereby regulatory agencies would come to be largely controlled by the industries they purported to regulate, or at the very least would protect those industries as a cartel in a tradeoff for [...]
by Doug McKelway Fox News Numerous emails appear to show close coordination between the EPA and environmental groups in drafting the controversial Clean Power Plan which could mark the demise of coal-fired power plants in the United States. The emails, obtained by Fox News, came to light in a lawsuit filed by the Energy and [...]
by Inquisitr A recent report, based on emails obtained in Freedom of Information requests, indicated alleged collusion between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Obama Administration and Environmental special interest groups, the Washington Times reported. A report from the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) documents the alleged collusion between the EPA and some “eco-friendly groups” [...]
by Ben Wolfgang Washington Times The Obama administration’s controversial climate change agenda is being driven largely by outside forces in the environmental community, and powerful activist groups have played a major — and perhaps illegal — role in crafting key Environmental Protection Agency policies, a detailed report released Thursday charges. Emails obtained by the Energy [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller A new report by a government watchdog group claims the EPA broke federal law by secretly colluding with environmental activists to push the Obama administration’s global warming agenda, and urges the agency to go back to the drawing board on its pending carbon dioxide rule. A report by the Environment & Energy [...]
Anthony Watts Watts Up With That Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a 501 (c) (3) watchdog group, released an investigatory report, Back to Square One: Unlawful Collusion with Green Pressure Groups Should Doom U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulation and an appendix of source documents. The report, which is [...]
For Immediate Release: July 30, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Releases Report: Back to Square One: Unlawful Collusion with Green Pressure Groups Should Doom U.S. EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulation Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a 501 (c) (3) watchdog group, released an investigatory report, Back [...]
