by Chris White The Daily Caller The New York attorney general engaging in a highly publicized probe into oil producer ExxonMobil solicited meetings from an influential billionaire Democratic donor, according to emails obtained Monday by the New York Post. Four months after announcing the Exxon investigation, Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tried to finagle meetings [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A former senior EPA official known for coordinating with environmentalists slammed the White House for pushing back on agency plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas, text messages show. Michael Goo, EPA’s policy chief at the time, texted Sierra Club lobbyist John Coequyt that if environmentalists “want [...]
by Brian Freeman Newsmax.com A senior Environmental Protection Agency official used an expletive — a term for male genitalia used to describe a foolish or contemptible person — when he called those in the White House who resist efforts to regulate fracking "********," according to a report in The Washington Free Beacon. In a text [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A senior Environmental Protection Agency official privately complained about “dickheads” in the White House who resisted efforts to regulate an innovative oil and gas extraction technique, newly released documents show. Michael Goo, then the EPA’s policy chief, complained to a Sierra Club lobbyist that the White House Office of [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor In July, E&E Legal issued an extensive report, Buying the Democrat Party Lock, Stock, and Barrel, that details among other things that activist billionaire Tom Steyer is using the Democratic Party to push his self-serving carbon-free energy agenda in the political arena. A short video accompanied the report. Although Steyer is the number [...]
For Immediate Release: August 4, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 State AG ‘Secrecy Pact’ Aimed at Thwarting Transparency Laws Released; E&E Legal Obtains Document From DC Following Litigation Washington D.C. -The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has obtained a copy of the purported “Common Interest Agreement” led by New York’s Attorney General [...]
by Alatheia Nielsen MRC News Buster When Democrats unveiled their new party platform at the DNC, it read like the mission statement from Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate PAC. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute first identified the similarities in a July 25 report, calling them “policy plagiarism.” The report also called Tom Steyer “the most [...]
For Immediate Release: July 26, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Unveils Short Video to Accompany Previously Released Investigatory Report Regarding Billionaire Tom Steyer Efforts to Bankroll Elections and Stifle 'Climate Change' Debate to Protect his Solar Investments Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group, unveiled a short [...]
For Immediate Release: July 25, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Latest E&E Legal Investigatory Report Details Efforts by Billionaire Tom Steyer to Bankroll Elections and Stifle 'Climate Change' Debate to Protect his Solar Investments Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group, released a report, Buying the Democrat [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A Democrat-led coalition of attorneys general has entered into a confidentiality agreement to avoid disclosing public records related to their investigation into climate dissent, according to a document released Wednesday. The letter from an assistant for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she cannot comply with an open-records request on [...]
