by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On September 27, 2016, the entire United States District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in West Virginia, et al. v EPA, to which E&E Legal is party, challenging the EPA’s “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” rule under [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Counsel On May 16th, 2016, the D.C. Circuit issued a surprise decision in the case regarding one piece of the ‘Obama Clean Power Plan’, ordering that the full Circuit Court would hear the case, instead of the three judge panel to which it was originally assigned to. The case, West Virginia, [...]
by Dean Chambers RedState Another Obama administration agency has been caught using private e-mails to conduct government business, much like Hillary Clinton had done as Secretary of State. After obtaining documents via Freedom of Information Act request, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) reported how U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) circumvented federal law [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Alabama Republican Rep. Gary Palmer suggested the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology look into the possible “criminal activity” being perpetrated by Environmental Protection Agency officials, citing recent agency “cover-ups.”... Palmer’s remarks come as the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute announced it found more evidence top officials at the EPA were [...]
by Dean Chambers Right Side News Hillary Clinton is not the only Obama Administration official to have used private e-mails to conduct official government business. Documents obtained by Freedom of Information Act request by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) illustrate how U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) circumvented federal law by conducting official [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller House Republicans are worried the Department of Energy (DOE) isn’t doing enough to keep officials from using private email accounts to conduct official business after the department’s chief admitted even he uses a private email account. “In light of recent reports that you [Secretary Moniz], as well as other top [...]
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 [...]
by Annalee Grant SNL Financial When reviewing broader legal challenges to the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan a federal appeals court will not consider whether the U.S. EPA and several environmental groups engaged in alleged illegal ex parte communications. Conservative legal advocacy group Energy and Environment Legal Institute had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
