Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Spring 2016. Click on headlines for the full article. Vermont Records Request Blows AGs Scandal Wide Open by Craig Richardson, Executive Director On April 15, E&E Legal publicly released e-mails obtained through a public records request to the Attorney General of Vermont. The [...]
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 [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Winter 2016. Click on headlines for the full article. Supreme Court Halts Obama ‘Clean Power Plan’ by Chaim Mandelbaum, Litigation Manager On February 9th, 2016 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay halting implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel There’s an old legal maxim that justice delayed is justice denied. In E&E Legal’s recent efforts to promote transparency and accountability, we have found that maxim rings true in the context of the Freedom of Information Act, as politicians and bureaucrats delay releasing records to which the public is entitled. [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue IX: Fall 2015. Click on headlines for the full article. E&E Legal Releases ‘Energy Poverty’ Video for Papal Visit E&E Legal firmly believes that humanity has a moral obligation to protect and preserve the environment. However, the Pope’s strategy to address ‘climate change’ – [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel In 2014, the United States Supreme Court held that Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act - which applies to all state and local government agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia - could exclude non-citizens of Virginia without violating the federal Constitution. Thus, Americans who do not reside in Virginia have [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue VII. Click on headlines for the full article. E&E Legal’s Four Reports Expose ‘Climate Change’ Advocates by Craig Richardson, Executive Director 2015 has been a productive year for E&E Legal’s investigatory practice. Since April, E&E Legal has released four groundbreaking transparency reports that expose [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel E&E Legal recently obtained its first batch of Instant Messaging (IM) records from EPA. While E&E has been trying to obtain IM records from various agencies since 2013, we were never successful until now. Agencies claimed that the records didn’t exist, that the relevant software did not “capture” the messages, [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel The DC Circuit will soon decide whether the EPA’s Clean Power Plan - which West Virginia’s Solicitor General says would "reorder the way we use energy, from plant to plug” - is constitutional. Regardless of whether EPA is allowed to go forward with this reordering, however, the Plan has already [...]
For Immediate Release: March 23, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 202-758-8301 Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act Used to Determine Whether UVA Can Keep Scientific Bias Secret Washington, D.C. — Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, accuses university faculty of bias based on the source of their funding – arguing [...]
