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 Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon Supporters of a controversial Environmental Protection Agency regulation commissioned Democratic pollsters to plot ways to attack the motives and credibility of the regulation’s critics, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal. Aides to a dozen Democratic governors and the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial advocacy arm circulated talking points and [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Investor's Business Daily Hypocrisy, thy name is Barack Obama. The president has singled out industrialists Charles and David Koch for supposedly orchestrating a movement to undermine his agenda, especially the various "climate change" policies that he's pushing via unprecedented federal regulation. These policies [...]
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 Richardson@eelegal.org 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 Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan Washington Times The Obama administration, top climate change crusaders and governors from across the country have engaged in a highly coordinated effort to publicly sell the president’s green agenda and put private pressure on opponents, according to newly released emails and other records obtained through Freedom of Information Act [...]
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 [...]
Institute for Energy Research (IER) Latest Analysis Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its regulations on carbon dioxide emissions for existing electricity generating units, which the agency calls the “Clean Power Plan.” EPA claims the alleged benefits of the rule significantly outweigh the costs, and is requesting that states submit plans to [...]
