Jennifer Yachnin and Daniel Bush, E&E reporters Greenwire Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) formally resigned yesterday amid allegations of public corruption and questions over whether his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, used her position as an adviser on energy issues for personal gain. But whether Republicans can successfully push the scandal beyond the Beaver State's borders [...]
For Immediate Release: February 18, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 - MEDIA ADVISORY- Transparency Attorney Chris Horner, Whose Request into the Washington State Governor's Office Uncovered E-mails Linked to Kitzhaber-Green Group Scandal, Available to Discuss His Findings What: Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) Senior Legal Fellow and well-known FOIA attorney, Chris Horner, [...]
By Chris Horner Senior Legal Fellow, Energy & Environment Legal Institute As Appearing in the Washington Times This week Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, leaves office, having resigned under the cloud of a cronyism and corruption scandal. A U.S. attorney has subpoenaed “records that are a catalog of Kitzhaber’s climate and economy-related initiatives,” centering [...]
by John Fund National Review Online Oregon governor John Kitzhaber may have announced that he will resign, but a sweeping FBI investigation of him and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is only getting started. While the story involves personal failings, the green-energy lobbying scandal that brought them down has national lessons and implications. If oil companies and pharmaceutical concerns shouldn’t exercise [...]
There is evidence that many of our anti-oil-and-gas environmentalists are funded by Moscow. by Jill Kay Melchior National Review Online Two new developments this week add to growing hunches that Russian money has made its way to the American environmentalist movement. On Thursday afternoon, the Environmental Policy Alliance published a report detailing how a Bermuda-based [...]
by Ethan Barton Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials said they stopped using kids for experiments in 2006, but subsequent reports from a health research project in which nearly two dozen children were exposed to diesel fumes contradict their claim. "After the 2006 ban went into effect, UCLA and USC used cells in their laboratories [...]
by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel When someone has a good stretch of luck in Las Vegas, there sometimes comes a moment where they decide to throw caution to the wind and put all their chips on the table. This past election cycle, the radical environmentalist crowd shouted “Everything on green 14!” Typical of a [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency and politically connected activist groups have proposed a legal settlement that may ignore legal protections afforded to states under federal law and could force the closure of more coal-fired power plants across the country. Environmentalists and EPA officials will likely hail the deal as a [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The Energy and the Environment Legal Institute promotes free-market environmentalism through strategic litigation. David Schnare, General Counsel of E&E Legal, discusses several ongoing actions, including E & E Legals’ request that the IRS and FEC investigate the Sierra Club for illegal fundraising and improper electioneering activities. Read more and listen to the podcast.
by Charles Battig, M.D. Right Side News Aaron Copland’s 1942 concert piece “Fanfare for the Common Man” brings forth images of the nobility of the ordinary citizen. Recent actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and environmental extremists bring forth images of an “Energy Requiem for the Common Man.”... Now the political activities of [...]
