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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
For Immediate Release: February 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 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 [...]
For Immediate Release: February 11, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 202-785-8301 Combatting Climate Change in the Courts by David W. Schnare General Counsel Energy & Environment Legal Institute On February 10th, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (“ACS”) hosted a panel discussion on legal approaches and activities associated with “combatting” climate change through [...]
For Immediate Release: February 10, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 202-785-8301 U.S. Supreme Court Stays Obama Clean Power Plan; E&E Legal Part of Coalition Seeking Stay Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay halting enforcement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) recent efforts to shut down coal-fired power plants in the United States. The rule, [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmentalist lawyers have been pushing a legal theory that would give the Environmental Protection Agency cover to regulate every facet of state energy policy — effectively eliminating state’s authority to craft their own regulations. “Buried in the Clean Air Act is an extremely powerful mechanism that effectively gives EPA carte [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On October 29, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed two petitions in the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals. These petitions asked the court to review the two key prongs of EPA’s “Clean Power Plan (CPP)”, a plan which will do little if anything to help the environment, but [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller EPA’s Clean Power Plan limits carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Agency emissions standards for new power plants, however, are so low that only plants using CCS technology can comply. Republicans and coal industry supporters have argued that CCS is not commercially viable and EPA’s de facto [...]
