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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

SNL Financial: Court will not review claims ex parte communications behind Clean Power Plan

2016-03-24T16:24:08-04:00March 22nd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Suits|

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 [...]

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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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14 03, 2016

Texas Public Policy Foundation: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Destroy Navajo Nation Jobs

2016-03-15T11:05:36-04:00March 14th, 2016|Clean Power Plan, Energy Poverty, EPA, War on Coal|

by Chuck DeVore, V.P. of National Initiatives, The Texas Public Policy Foundation As Appearing in The Daily Signal The federal government and their allies are choosing dubious environmental prescriptions to effectively impose a new tax on electricity increasing the costs of energy on all Americans and businesses. These added costs will especially impact middle and [...]

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2 03, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Supreme Court Halts Obama ‘Clean Power Plan’

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00March 2nd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, E&E Legal Letters, Mandelbaum, Suits|

by Chaim Mandelbaum Litigation Manager On February 9th, 2016 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay halting implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency regulations that would lead to the end of coal plants in the United States. The Court in, a 5-4 decision, ordered the EPA rule “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for [...]

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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

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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