4 08, 2015
30 07, 2015
Washington Times: Obama’s climate change policy driven by outside forces: report
by Ben Wolfgang Washington Times The Obama administration’s controversial climate change agenda is being driven largely by outside forces in the environmental community, and powerful activist groups have played a major — and perhaps illegal — role in crafting key Environmental Protection Agency policies, a detailed report released Thursday charges. Emails obtained by the Energy [...]
30 07, 2015
Daily Caller: Report: EPA Broke The Law To Push CO2 Regulations
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller A new report by a government watchdog group claims the EPA broke federal law by secretly colluding with environmental activists to push the Obama administration’s global warming agenda, and urges the agency to go back to the drawing board on its pending carbon dioxide rule. A report by the Environment & Energy [...]
30 07, 2015
Press Release: E&E Legal Releases GHG Collusion Report
For Immediate Release: July 30, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Releases Report: Back to Square One: Unlawful Collusion with Green Pressure Groups Should Doom U.S. EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulation Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a 501 (c) (3) watchdog group, released an investigatory report, Back [...]
9 07, 2015
Fox News: Emails show party planning and more between EPA official, environmental groups
by Joseph Weber Fox News They worked hard, they played hard. Newly obtained emails reveal a seemingly close relationship, during and after work hours, between an EPA office and influential environmental groups -- showing a top agency official encouraged one such group to write an anti-coal report and even invited members to a summer bash [...]
6 07, 2015
Daily Caller: EPA Officials Caught Using Talking Points From Soros-Backed Group
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Emails obtained by a free-market legal group show that EPA officials may have been using talking points given to them by a policy expert with the Center for American Progress (CAP) — a think tank founded by Clinton adviser John Podesta and backed by liberal billionaire George Soros. Then-CAP [...]
6 07, 2015
Free Beacon: Center for American Progress Helped Craft EPA Press Strategy
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A prominent left-wing group helped formulate Environmental Protection Agency talking points designed to sell a controversial regulatory scheme to skeptical journalists, internal emails show. The emails show Joseph Goffman, the senior counsel of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, circulating talking points from Center for American Progress climate strategy [...]
24 06, 2015
Heartland: Top EPA Official Coordinated With High-Powered Green Groups on Policy
by Emily Zanotti The Commentary & Policy Blog of the Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency has been working, for some time, to craft regulations on coal plants that would dramatically limit both their carbon emissions and their capacity to provide an energy source – electricity – to the majority of Americans in an affordable way. [...]
22 06, 2015
Free Beacon: Top EPA Official Used Personal Email Address to Solicit Green Group’s Input
by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon A high-level official at the Environmental Protection Agency used a personal email address to collaborate with a left-wing environmental group on major greenhouse gas regulations, newly released emails show. Michael Goo, then the head of EPA’s policy division, in May 2011 emailed John Coequyt, the director of the [...]
22 06, 2015
Horner: Illegal EPA scheming on private email extended to GHG rules
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing on Watts Up With That Former Secretary of State, and presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not the only current or former Obama administration official facing investigation for use of a private email account skirting federal record keeping laws. The list of offenders [...]