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22 02, 2016

Press Release: E&E Legal Files Motion, Brief, Releases Report: FOIA’d Emails Show Lobbyists-EPA Staff Co-wrote GHG Regulatory Options Using Personal Email Accounts

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Press Releases, Report, Scandal, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: February 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 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 [...]

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11 02, 2016

Schnare: Combatting Climate Change in the Courts

2016-12-11T17:07:23-05:00February 11th, 2016|Clean Power Plan, Inquisition, Manipulation, Press Releases, RICO, Schnare|

For Immediate Release: February 11, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 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 [...]

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10 02, 2016

Press Release: U.S. Supreme Court Stays Obama Clean Power Plan;
E&E Legal Part of Coalition Seeking Stay

2016-02-10T09:23:09-05:00February 10th, 2016|"Climate Change", Clean Power Plan, Coalitions, Green Groups, Press Releases, Scandal, Schnare, U.S. Supreme Court|

For Immediate Release: February 10, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 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, [...]

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1 02, 2016

Daily Caller: ‘Climate Change’ Lawyers Quietly Lay Groundwork For EPA Takeover Of US Energy Sector

2017-03-10T10:30:52-05:00February 1st, 2016|2015 Paris Talks, Clean Power Plan, GHG Rule, Horner, Media Coverage|

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 [...]

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23 11, 2015

E&E Legal Letters Issue IX: Energy & Environment Legal Institute asks D.C. Circuit to strike down EPA’s “Clean Power Plan”

2015-11-21T12:14:01-05:00November 23rd, 2015|Clean Power Plan, E&E Legal Letters, E&E Legal v. EPA, Mandelbaum|

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 [...]

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11 11, 2015

Daily Caller: Not Even Democrats Believe EPA On Viability Of ‘Clean Coal’ Tech

2015-11-16T16:01:03-05:00November 11th, 2015|Clean Power Plan, GHG Rule, Horner, Media Coverage|

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 [...]

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11 10, 2015

Power Line: Cleaning Up the Clean Power Plan

2016-12-11T17:07:36-05:00October 11th, 2015|"Climate Change", 111d, Clean Power Plan, Schnare, War on Coal|

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 [...]

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7 10, 2015

Free Beacon: Documents Reveal Dem Efforts to Discredit EPA Critics: Emails and talking points memos detail ways to ‘sow doubts about our opponents motives’

2015-10-07T08:40:34-04:00October 7th, 2015|Clean Power Plan, Manipulation, Media Coverage|

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 [...]

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22 09, 2015

Horner: None Dare Call It Conspiracy: Obama’s Coordinated Climate Campaign

2016-12-11T17:07:37-05:00September 22nd, 2015|"Climate Change", Billionaire Scammers, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Steyer, War on Coal|

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 [...]

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18 09, 2015

Forbes: E&E Legal on the Capture of EPA

2015-09-19T16:47:54-04:00September 18th, 2015|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Scandal|

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 [...]

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