by Erin Mundahl Inside Sources This week, Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), the non-profit group engaged in litigation and public education on energy and environmental issues continued its slow pursuit of records relating to former Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell’s involvement in the ExxonKnew campaign. For more than a year, E&E Legal has [...]
New York, NY - Attorneys for the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a nonprofit public watchdog group, today appeared in front of the New York Supreme Court in the latest chapter of an ongoing struggle to obtain public records relating to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's “climate-RICO” scheme to pursue political opponents from the State's [...]
Burlington, VT - Matthew Hardin, lead attorney for the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), is available at 1:00 p.m. today to discuss this morning's deposition of former Vermont Attorney General William Sorell. Sorrell was initially scheduled to appear at a deposition on October 4, but he didn't show. He and his attorney, current Vermont Attorney General Donovan, filed motions with the [...]
Washington, D.C. – In the latest of a series of rather strange press releases today, the Vermont Office of Attorney General once again waves its rhetorical hands about a non-existent pursuit of "private emails", with breathless chest-beating about "rights to privacy" and worker rights" as it strains to change the subject from the actual subject before the courts, and [...]
Following is a statement from the Energy & Environment Legal Institute President Craig Richardson regarding today's decision by a Vermont Court Judge to compel former Attorney General William Sorrell to appear in a deposition regarding ongoing litigation E&E Legal is pursuing regarding the 'Climate-RICO' cabal: The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) welcomes Vermont [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will soon issue a directive to “ensure the independence and transparency and objectivity with respect to the scientific advice that we’re getting at the agency,” he said on Tuesday. Pruitt said he would issue a directive next week addressing potential conflicts of [...]
by Chris White Daily Caller A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit Tuesday to obtain the private email conversations of one of the attorney generals leading an investigation into ExxonMobil’s climate history. E&E Legal petitioned the New York Supreme Court for New York AG Eric Schneiderman’s private Gmail account to determine how many lawmen are [...]
by Amena H. Saiyid Bloomberg BNA Scientists who have received EPA grants to the “tune of literally tens of millions of dollars” won’t be allowed to serve on the agency’s advisory boards, Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Oct. 17. The goal of this directive, which Pruitt will issue next week, is to ensure that the scientific [...]
New York, NY - The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) today filed a petition with the New York Supreme Court, in its ongoing attempt to obtain public records relating to Schneiderman's “climate-RICO” scheme from which nearly all former AG colleagues have fled after open records requests threatened to expose the use of law enforcement offices [...]
Washington, D.C. - The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) applauds U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt for his Agency's decision to end the practice known as “Sue and Settle." Way too much environmental policy making in recent years was conducted through this practice, which sought to circumvent the proper legislative and regulatory processes. [...]
