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23 03, 2016

Before It’s News: MOST TRANSPARENT, EVAH! Obama EPA Used Secret Email Accounts to Scheme with Lobbyists and Climatards

2016-03-24T15:44:37-04:00March 23rd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Scandal|

by Ethan Barton Before It's News There is new evidence senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials routinely use private email accounts to conduct government business, this time to pass along information from an energy lobbyist. Michael J. Bradley, president and founder of an energy consulting firm that represents numerous green advocacy groups, described his preference [...]

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22 03, 2016

Press Release: Once Again EPA Senior Officials Using Private E-mail to Conduct Official Agency Business

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00March 22nd, 2016|Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Press Releases, Richardson, Scandal, Schnare|

For Immediate Release: March 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Recent E-mail Documents Secured Through FOIA Production Reveal Continued Pattern of Using Private E-mails Accounts -- Lobbyist Requests Senior Counsel Pass Lobbying Memo to Administrator's Private E-Mail Account Washington, D.C. – A recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted by the [...]

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21 03, 2016

Washington Examiner: Federal judges reject evidence against EPA

2016-03-22T18:09:21-04:00March 21st, 2016|Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, War on Coal|

by John Siciliano Washington Examiner Federal judges gave the Environmental Protection Agency a win on Monday, by rejecting a conservative group's request that they consider evidence showing how "green" groups colluded with the agency in developing the administration's landmark climate rules for power plants. The Energy and Environment Law Institute, or E&E Legal, said Monday [...]

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21 03, 2016

E&E Legal’s Statement RE: D.C. Circuit Court’s Decision to Deny Brief Illustrating Extensive Collusion Between EPA and Green Groups in Writing Clean Power Plan

2016-03-21T18:47:30-04:00March 21st, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Scandal, Schnare, War on Coal|

The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is extremely disappointed that the DC Circuit three judge panel refused to consider whether the EPA was improperly influenced by so called 'green' groups when the agency put forth the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that intended to "bankrupt" coal power plants and eliminate coal miners jobs throughout [...]

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26 02, 2016

Tribune-Review: Clean power: Dirty plan

2016-02-29T17:42:54-05:00February 26th, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Scandal|

by Tribune-Review New documentation released by an energy advocacy group shows special interests surreptitiously influenced the formulation of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. Culled from Freedom of Information requests, emails show that Michael Goo, a former administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency, used a private email account to collaborate with environmentalists. What's alleged by [...]

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22 02, 2016

Washington Times: Clean Power Plan reset sought after emails show collaboration bewteen EPA, greens

2016-02-23T11:55:16-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A pro-energy advocacy group is seeking to incinerate the Clean Power Plan after releasing more emails showing a key Environmental Protection Agency official collaborating behind the scenes with leading environmental activists. In a 20-page report released Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute chronicles another round of communications between environmentalists [...]

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22 02, 2016

Grimes: How To Make A California Slush Fund Even Slushier

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|Cap & Trade, Conflict of Interest, Grimes, Media Coverage, Scandal|

by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report While the state of California is extracting billions of dollars from businesses and utilities through the California Air Resources Board’s cap-and-trade program auctions, the Legislature can’t decide how to spend the billions. Instead, lawmakers have been arguing over how to direct [...]

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22 02, 2016

EnergyWire: Group [E&E Legal] tells court EPA took ‘marching orders’ from lobbyists

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Ellen M. Gilmer EnergyWire Reporter As a throng of challengers file legal briefs criticizing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan as overreaching and unconstitutional, one group is stepping forward with a simpler, but serious, allegation: U.S. EPA let lobbyists write the rule. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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22 02, 2016

Daily Caller: ‘Captured’: EPA Let Green Lobbyists Write Its Global Warming Regs

2016-02-22T17:24:44-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, DOE, GHG Rule, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency|

by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The Obama administration basically let lobbyists tied to left-wing environmental groups write the government’s massive global warming regulatory scheme, according to documents obtained by a free market legal group. Attorneys with the Energy & Environment Legal Foundation (E&E) released a report Monday calling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a “captured” [...]

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22 02, 2016

Press Release: E&E Legal Files Motion, Brief, Releases Report: FOIA’d Emails Show Lobbyists-EPA Staff Co-wrote GHG Regulatory Options Using Personal Email Accounts

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Press Releases, Report, Scandal, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: February 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Files Motion, Brief, Publishes Report: Dozens of New FOIA’d Emails Show Lobbyists Allowed by EPA to Co-write GHG Regulatory Options on Senior Official’s Yahoo Email Account Group asks Court in GHG litigation to consider top Policy Office Official use of private account [...]

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