by Stephen Dinan The Washington Times The EPA and environmental groups are exceptionally close for a government agency and lobby groups, with a revolving door and pressure from the groups often shaping EPA’s policies, according to a new report from a conservative watchdog group based on emails obtained in a yearslong battle with the agency. [...]
by Mark Tapscott Washington Examiner Numerous senior officials of the Environmental Protection Agency have real or apparent "revolving door" conflicts of interest, according to a new report by a nonprofit watchdog. "Example after example clearly show that senior leadership in the EPA, made up exclusively of career bureaucrats and former, and likely future green group activists, operate [...]
by John Hayward Human Events I don’t wish to downplay the hard work of the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, but learning that the Environmental Protection Agency is essentially staffed and run by its own lobbyists is not surprising. It’s good to have it all documented in a concise report, entitled “Improper Collusion Between Environmental [...]
NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside ‘green’ lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question. Read more.
by John DiStaso New Hampshire Journal In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club environmental group “collaborated” in writing a press release for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on her participation in a “Clean Energy Solutions Roundtable” featuring Club and EPA officials, according to a new report by a conservative think-tank. The Energy and Environmental [...]
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside 'green' lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question Obama’s EPA in collusion with “green” lobby groups — Report details the conflicts of interest, “unalterably closed minds”, internal activism and influence of outside interest [...]
by Cliff Smith FME Law Counsel What do you get when you put dozens of “green”lawyers together with nothing in particular to accomplish and more money than they know what to do with? Someone could be excused for thinking that this sounds like the start of a really bad lawyer joke. Unfortunately, it’s anything but. [...]
