by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press Governor Jerry Brown has just appointed two radical environmental justice activists to the California Public Utilities Commission, replacing two commissioners whose terms expired January 1, 2017. Awaiting Senate confirmation, are Clifford Rechtschaffen and Martha Guzman Aceves—two Brown insiders with shady records [...]
by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal Just before joining climate change activist and former Vice President Al Gore for a press conference in New York City, seven state-level attorneys general huddled with a representative of the Union of Concerned Scientists. The political activist, Peter Frumhoff, called for them and other elected officials to move decisively [...]
by Kathryn Watson Daily Caller A loophole in federal law allows Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees and other federal workers get away with deleting millions of official records created using cellphone text messaging, according to government transparency experts. The Federal Records Act (FRA) and EPA policy allow individual employees who create and receive cell phone [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller The Rockefeller family’s crusade against Exxon Mobil is part of a “covert” campaign to give the oil rich family a leg up in emerging markets, according to a report from an environmental legal group. The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) published a report Tuesday suggesting that the Rockefeller family has pumped [...]
For Immediate Release: December 20, 2016 Contact: David Sanders sandersdavidg@gmail.com 202-810-2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group, released a report, The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert 'Climate Change' Plan. The report provides a short history of the family's undue influence in U.S. policy making and details how the they [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Frontpage Mag California Gov. Jerry Brown wants President Barack Obama to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in the state – except of course, on Brown’s personal land. In an attempt to lock in environmental protections before President-Elect Donald Trump takes office in January, [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (VA OAG) seeking records pertaining to that office's participation in the New York AG Eric Schneiderman-led campaign against political opponents of the "climate" agenda. This follows the Virginia AG's release of unredacted documents it had been [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states banded together in a political crusade to “investigate” and threaten to prosecute those who disagree with their climate change agenda, E&E Legal decided to pull back the curtains to expose what the states were really looking for, and what might have spurred these investigations, [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times aA court has ordered New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to turn over documents related to a multistate confidentiality agreement on climate change investigations. New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Henry F. Zwack ruled that Mr. Schneiderman has 30 days to comply with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s May 5 request [...]
For Immediate Release: November 16, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) was forced to file an open records suit with exhibits against yet another “Green 20” state attorney general (AG), this time Virginia’s Mark Herring. Herring was an early signatory to the aborted political coalition among activist AGs [...]
