by Steven Hayward Power Line As John noted on Friday, a federal appeals court has blocked for the time being the EPA’s brazen extension of the Clean Water Act. What about its equally brazen extension of the Clean Air Act into a lever for the de facto nationalization of the nation’s electric utility industry? It is facing [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Democratic gubernatorial offices around the country have been relying on the same activist-drafted, cookie-cutter talking points when it comes to discrediting critics of the Obama administration’s global warming agenda. Documents obtained by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute and published Wednesday by The Washington Free Beacon reveal how Democrats circulated [...]
by JV DeLong Forbes / Law & Regulation The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute is a D.C.-based advocacy group dedicated to “free market environmentalism through strategic litigation.” Recently, E&E has been examining environmental policy by searching public records and filing FOIA requests with state and federal agencies, and then tenaciously litigating over the resulting efforts [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon The office of Kentucky’s governor failed to provide documents through an open records request that show the Democrat’s staff collaborating with the White House and leading environmental activists on a controversial anti-coal regulation, according to a conservative legal group. The Energy and Environment (E&E) Legal Center filed an appeal to [...]
For Immediate Release September 14, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 What's the Matter With Kentucky?: Records Indicate that Office of Kentucky Attorney General Conway Did in Fact Receive a Request it Denied Receiving, Seeking a Ruling on Untrue Claim by Kentucky Governor Beshear's Office that it has 'No Records' Responsive to a "111(d)" FOIA [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel In June 2015, the D.C. Circuit decided In RE: Murray Energy, that challengers to the EPA planned carbon regulation would have to wait until EPA released the final rules to bring legal objections to these harsh regulations. On August 3rd, EPA released the final version of its Clean Power [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Roanoke Times The idea of Virginia doing things “the California way” doesn’t make much sense. Unfortunately, Virginians may not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon finalize the Clean Power Plan, [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Investor's Business Daily California Gov. Jerry Brown has hailed the Golden State as a model to be followed when United Nations climate negotiators convene in Paris this year. If my experience working for the California Energy Commission taught me anything, it's [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Philadelphia Inquirer The idea of Pennsylvania doing things "the California way" doesn't make much sense. Unfortunately, Pennsylvanians may not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon finalize the Clean Power Plan, [...]
by Joseph Weber Fox News They worked hard, they played hard. Newly obtained emails reveal a seemingly close relationship, during and after work hours, between an EPA office and influential environmental groups -- showing a top agency official encouraged one such group to write an anti-coal report and even invited members to a summer bash [...]
