by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in FoxNews.com Seventeen attorneys general got more than they bargained for when they held a March 29, 2016 “publicity stunt” press conference to announce, with former Vice President Al Gore by their sides, a campaign to target opponents of the global warming agenda under racketeering laws. It [...]
by Leslie Eastman Legal Insurrection Recently, I noted that climate change skeptics who also acted as their states’ attorneys general warned their environmental activist counterparts that plans were being made to “fight fire with fire.” Afterall, if the government’s environmental activists begin targeting businesses and private organizations under racketeering statutes for denying progressive environmental science [...]
For Immediate Release: June 13, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Forced to Sue Vermont Attorney General to Release Public Records Related to Conspiracy of AG's Seeking to Use RICO to Punish and Silence Climate Change 'Deniers' Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market [...]
by Thomas Richards Blasting News Washington state's Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) has a message for U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R): bugger off. At least when it comes to his state and its investigation of ExxonMobil over charges it tried to hide global warming from the public. Smith, who is the chairman of the House [...]
by Craig Richardson, Executive Direcgtor On April 15, E&E Legal publicly released e-mails obtained through a public records request to the Attorney General of Vermont. The e-mails showed that the offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), and other politically-aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists in their investigations against groups whose [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Law Counsel E&E Legal isn’t the only organization that faces stonewalling when it files Virginia Freedom of Information Act Requests. Recently, our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) faced the same problems. Back in September 2015, CEI and Chris Horner, senior fellow for both organizations, filed a Virginia Freedom of Information Act [...]
by Annalee Grant SNL The U.S. EPA has denied five petitions that sought review of carbon emissions guidelines for new, modified and reconstructed fossil fuel power plants, noting that a troubled Canadian power plant using carbon capture and sequestration is operating just fine. The new source rule, published in the Federal Register in October 2015, [...]
by Cliff Smith FME Law Counsel From the beginning of the Obama Presidency, the Administration has gone to great lengths to portray any investigation into its behavior as an ideological crusade against them. As the scandals mounted, the firing of several Inspectors General, the Fast and the Furious gun running scandal, the false-identity Richard Windsor [...]
By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel Recent transparency efforts by The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) ran head first into the anti-transparency culture and institutional wagon circling that seems to pervade state funded institutions of higher education these days. The University of Illinois at [...]
