by Andrew Restuccia and Elana Schor Politico At least seven state attorneys general signed an agreement earlier this year to block public access to their internal communications about potential investigations into ExxonMobil's record on climate change. The AGs' pact, known as a "common interest agreement," stems from a daylong March 29 conference they attended that [...]
For Immediate Release: July 6, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 New Documents Confirm: “Climate RICO” AGs Attempting to Write Themselves Out of Transparency Laws to Hide Abusive Campaign Washington, DC – New responses from state Attorneys General offices (OAGs) obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental [...]
Tom Borelli Conservative Review Democrats are increasing the intensity of their assault against those that don’t believe in man-made global warming as problems in the Left’s wild global warming predictions mount and fail the test of reality. The coordination of the political and advocacy effort to ram global warming policy is remarkable. In an effort [...]
by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in FoxNews.com Seventeen attorneys general got more than they bargained for when they held a March 29, 2016 “publicity stunt” press conference to announce, with former Vice President Al Gore by their sides, a campaign to target opponents of the global warming agenda under racketeering laws. It [...]
by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on May 9, the Obama administration had engaged in “bad faith” in its handling of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in Flash Report The announcement last week from PG&E that it was closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, rudely came on the same day there were rolling blackouts in Los Angeles amidst sweltering temperatures. [...]
by Thomas Richards Blasting News Washington state's Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) has a message for U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R): bugger off. At least when it comes to his state and its investigation of ExxonMobil over charges it tried to hide global warming from the public. Smith, who is the chairman of the House [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Law Counsel E&E Legal isn’t the only organization that faces stonewalling when it files Virginia Freedom of Information Act Requests. Recently, our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) faced the same problems. Back in September 2015, CEI and Chris Horner, senior fellow for both organizations, filed a Virginia Freedom of Information Act [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times House Republicans this week launched an investigation into the 17 attorneys general pursuing fraud allegations against climate change skeptics, citing concerns about the campaign’s impact on free speech and scientific inquiry. “Americans are entitled to express their views on matters of science and public policy even if certain groups disagree,” [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of think tanks, businesses and consumer groups, and individual researchers in his widening probe of organizations that have written skeptically about purported human-caused climate change and policies proposed and implemented to fight it. His efforts are a witch hunt, [...]
