by April McCullum Burlington Free Press Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan is seeking to limit the public's ability to inquire about government records stored on personal email accounts, a move he says will preserve the privacy of officials across the state. In a case that could have broad implications for government transparency in Vermont, Donovan [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in The Daily Sentinel The front-page headline screamed in 40-point type: “EPA chief Pruitt met with many corporate execs. Then he made decisions in their favor.” A rare two-sentence headline! The Washington Post has broken the ultimate scandal, perhaps eclipsing even its own now-legendary 1973 [...]
by Erin Mundahl InsideSource As the year passes, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s case against ExxonMobil grinds on, slowly drawing in a broader circle of state officials outside of New York with questionable ties to the case. On Wednesday, Bill Sorrell, Vermont’s longest-serving Attorney General, was due at the courthouse in Burlington, Vermont. Sorrell’s [...]
by Morgan True VT Digger BURLINGTON — Vermont’s former attorney general has been ordered to answer questions under oath about the possible existence of public records that the state says are confidential. The legal decision Wednesday was a major victory for a nonprofit that is suing Vermont for records related to a probe of Exxon [...]
by Alicia Freese Seven Days Former Vermont attorney general Bill Sorrell didn’t show up Wednesday morning for a deposition related to a case brought by the industry-funded Energy & Environment Legal Institute, which claimed Sorrell flouted court procedure by skipping the proceeding. For more than a year, the Washington, D.C.-based group has sought records from [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Foundation A federal judge ordered a former Vermont attorney general to testify about his use of private emails in an investigation targeting oil producers after the Democratic official refused to appear in court for a deposition hearing addressing the probe. Judge Mary Teachout, who serves on the Vermont Superior [...]
Burlington, VT- After a court order, nearly a year of legal wrangling and constant stonewalling about records relating to former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell's involvement in the scandalous climate-RICO cabal exposed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), Sorrell has now defied the Court order joining him to the lawsuit and refused to [...]
by E&E Legal President Craig Richardson As Appearing in MRC's NewsBuster On September 16, social media lit up with a Wall Street Journal breaking news report that the Trump Administration is seeking ways to stay in the Paris Climate Treaty. After working with dozens of other free market, pro-liberty groups for six months encouraging the [...]
by Todd Shepherd Washington Examiner The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is demanding copies of contracts and grants between the Department of Health and Human Services and a cancer research institute in Italy that Republicans say provided controversial and biased research that has led to incorrect decisions about the safety of some products. The [...]
Washington, D.C. - Today the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services seeking answers on the relationship between the Obama National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) and Italy’s Ramazzini Institute (IBR). The IBR, and its affiliate the Collegium Ramazzini, the received $92 million dollars worth of [...]
