by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Frontpage Mag California Gov. Jerry Brown wants President Barack Obama to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in the state – except of course, on Brown’s personal land. In an attempt to lock in environmental protections before President-Elect Donald Trump takes office in January, [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Democratic mega donor Tom Steyer is signaling he might be considering taking a crack at the White House in 2020, Politico reported Monday. The billionaire’s decision to pivot from discussing local and state politics in California to talking more broadly about American politics has prompted the media to report [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As Appearing in Inside Business Daily Billionaire Tom Steyer vowed to make climate change a major issue in the 2016 election. His plan was to link arms with the AFL-CIO to mobilize the Democratic base and recruit Millennial voters to rise up to defeat Donald Trump and put [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer’s enormous financial effort to prevent President-elect Donald Trump failed in epic fashion Tuesday. The Democratic megadonor spent more than $75 million on this year’s election, with most of his efforts going toward registering millennials to vote, mostly on environmental issues. His money didn’t seem to matter, because [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As appearing InsideSources One name surfaces again and again in WikiLeaks’ email to expose the corrosive influence of the Greens’ “rich uncle,” hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer. The eye-opening leaks show a pattern of Steyer wielding his fortune to bend Democratic politics in pursuit of his personal green [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As appearing in RealClear Energy On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is subject to legal “discovery” by ExxonMobil. This turns the tables on the Attorney General (AG), who had demanded the company’s records as part of [...]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, ”a federal judge in Texas has issued a discovery order against the Massachusetts attorney general in the hotly-contested investigation about whether the oil giant concealed information about climate change from investors and the public." The court based its opinion on information E&E Legal [...]
by Bob Unruh WND It was a year ago when a long list of scientists wrote to the Obama administration urging the federal government to use RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, against global-warming skeptics... Now the tables are turned. A mathematician and software engineer has filed a lawsuit in Texas naming dozens [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute Mathematician and software engineer Leonid Goldstein filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on September 12, 2016, against what he says is a “climate alarmism enterprise” (CAE). The alleged CAE consists of more then 40 environmental groups, green investment funds, and [...]
For Immediate Release: October 7, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Schneiderman Unlawfully Withholding Documents Which Other FOI Requests Prove Exist, and are Not Privileged Washington, D.C. – After months of stonewalling of public information requests by New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) was once again forced to file suit against that office to [...]
