by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon A lobbyist tried to enlist a top Environmental Protection Agency official to help his environmental group raise money for advocacy campaigns supporting major EPA regulations, internal emails show. Conrad Schneider, the top lobbyist for the left-wing Clean Air Task Force, was in frequent contact with Michael Goo, EPA’s [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has gotten nearly $264,000 in campaign donations from monied individuals with ties to lawyers and environmentalists backing the Democratic prosecutor’s global warming investigation. Schneiderman, who’s been investigating whether or not ExxonMobil misled shareholders and the public about global warming, has gotten campaign contributions [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller The New York attorney general engaging in a highly publicized probe into oil producer ExxonMobil solicited meetings from an influential billionaire Democratic donor, according to emails obtained Monday by the New York Post. Four months after announcing the Exxon investigation, Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tried to finagle meetings [...]
by Joe Bast, president & CEO Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been twisting science and epidemiology to fit an extreme environmental agenda for years, but finally, finally!, it may be about to be hoisted with its own petard. Assuming, that is, that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) doesn’t ignore its legal [...]
by Jeff Stier The Observer With his latest plan to punish even thoughts and speech related to climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has raised the eyebrows of even his fellow climate-change activist Democrat attorneys general (AG). Officials from a number of state AG offices expressed anxiety about Schneiderman’s controversial plan to investigate [...]
For Immediate Release: September 6, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, Sept. 6 – On Thursday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute learned that the Washington-based Free Market Environmental Law Clinic filed an appeal to a “no records” response from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Having led several high-profile open records investigations in recent years, [...]
Matt Hardin FME Law Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states chose to band 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 [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states’ attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute With other state attorneys general ultimately failing to support New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s investigation of Exxon for its past climate research, the New York Post reports Schneiderman is shifting the focus of his (illegal) legal assault... Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (EELI) [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday seeking copies of any secrecy agreements related to a multistate investigation into climate-change dissent. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court after the Democratic prosecutor rejected the free-market think-tank’s Freedom of Information [...]
