by Elizabeth Hewitt VT Digger After fighting for a year not to release documents to a Washington-based nonprofit, the Vermont attorney general’s office now says there are no relevant records. Chief Assistant Attorney General Bill Griffin responded late Monday to a July court order that the state turn over records relevant to a request by [...]
Washington, D.C. – Last night, the Vermont Office of Attorney General (OAG) outdid itself in the latest episode of the Needlessly Endless Saga of the Exposed Climate-RICO Scheme. At 7:37 pm of its last day to produce records under court order, OAG informed the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) — after 11 months of [...]
Caledonian Record Editorial Last week Superior Court Judge Mary Miles Teachout rejected a bogus effort by the Vermont Attorney General’s office to keep public records secret. “The significance of that decision is that the Attorney General’s Office is subject to the public records act,” said E&E Legal attorney Matthew Hardin... We’re pleased by Judge Teachout’s [...]
by Anne Galloway Vermont Digger In a victory for open records advocates, a Washington Superior Court judge has ruled that the Vermont attorney general’s office cannot categorically deny public access to documents. Judge Mary Miles Teachout ordered the AG’s office to release records to the Energy and Environment Legal Institute in 30 days. The institute, [...]
April McCullum Burlington Free Press A Vermont judge has rejected the argument that the Vermont Attorney General's Office is exempt from state public records law and ordered the office to release some documents. The Attorney General's Office had argued in a March court hearing that because it is a law office, all of its work [...]
For Immediate Release: July 27, 2017 Contact: [email protected] 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has two freedom of Information Act cases pending against the Vermont Attorney General's Office for records relating to the notorious "climate-RICO" scheme among ideologically aligned, activist state AGs, first exposed by E&E Legal last April. At least until [...]
For Immediate Release: June 19, 2017 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 202-810-2001 E&E Legal Files a Motion to Renew and Reargue with New York Supreme Court Concerning OAG FOIL Case Over Revelation of AG Efforts to Hide Schneiderman Use of Private E-mail New York, NY – Late last week, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), acting on newly revealed information about [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Counsel In the New York County Supreme Court in lower Manhattan, E&E Legal and several citizens groups recently discovered something remarkable: the New York Attorney General’s Office had corresponded with the scheduler for Tom Steyer, a democratic political donor, and Lee Wasserman, of the Rockefeller Family Fund, immediately prior to launching [...]
by Gas & Electricity The “Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement” was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas company, and possibly other companies. It provides considerably more detail about the prosecutors’ legal [...]
by insidesources ValueWalk It isn’t often that global warming becomes a free speech issue. However, this may be the case in New York, where 11 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in federal court in support of ExxonMobil in late April. ExxonMobil is in the midst of a lengthy legal battle with New York Attorney General Eric [...]
