by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) failed to comply with its legal obligation to reduce the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled in favor of four teenagers supported by Our Children’s Trust, the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance. The [...]
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 Ann Purvis Heartland Institute The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Maryland electricity subsidy scheme on April 20, 2016, concluding in a unanimous decision, in Hughes v. PPL EnergyPlus, the arrangement impermissibly interfered with federally regulated wholesale electric power markets... David Schnare, general counsel of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, says he would [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Beacon The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely described as an effort to silence political opponents. In a subpoena issued in March, the office of USVI attorney general Claude Walker [...]
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, [...]
Argus Washington, 2 May (Argus) — The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected industry and state requests that it take another look at CO2 emissions limits for new coal-fired power plants. The agency on 29 April denied five petitions for reconsideration of the regulations filed by two utilities, an industry group and the state of [...]
by New York Post Editorial Board New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and other state AGs are probing ExxonMobil — but maybe they’re the ones who should be investigated. E-mails obtained by a free-market think tank (the Energy & Environment Legal Institute) show Schneiderman & Co. colluded with two activists last month just before the [...]
For Immediate Release: April 19, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Releases Updated 'Energy Poverty' Video to Remind World Leaders Gathering at the UN on 'International Mother Earth Day' to Sign the Paris Treaty that 'Climate' Policies Contained in the Agreement Hurt and Kill the Most Vulnerable Washington, D.C. (April 19, 2016) – This [...]
by John Siciliano Washington Examiner Federal judges gave the Environmental Protection Agency a win on Monday, by rejecting a conservative group's request that they consider evidence showing how "green" groups colluded with the agency in developing the administration's landmark climate rules for power plants. The Energy and Environment Law Institute, or E&E Legal, said Monday [...]
The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is extremely disappointed that the DC Circuit three judge panel refused to consider whether the EPA was improperly influenced by so called 'green' groups when the agency put forth the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that intended to "bankrupt" coal power plants and eliminate coal miners jobs throughout [...]
