By Chris Horner Senior Legal Fellow, Energy & Environment Legal Institute As Appearing in the Washington Times This week Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, leaves office, having resigned under the cloud of a cronyism and corruption scandal. A U.S. attorney has subpoenaed “records that are a catalog of Kitzhaber’s climate and economy-related initiatives,” centering [...]
by John Fund National Review Online Oregon governor John Kitzhaber may have announced that he will resign, but a sweeping FBI investigation of him and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is only getting started. While the story involves personal failings, the green-energy lobbying scandal that brought them down has national lessons and implications. If oil companies and pharmaceutical concerns shouldn’t exercise [...]
There is evidence that many of our anti-oil-and-gas environmentalists are funded by Moscow. by Jill Kay Melchior National Review Online Two new developments this week add to growing hunches that Russian money has made its way to the American environmentalist movement. On Thursday afternoon, the Environmental Policy Alliance published a report detailing how a Bermuda-based [...]
by Jean Chemnick E&E reporter A conservative group withdrew its lawsuit yesterday against the Energy Department that sought records on a Mississippi carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, saying DOE complied with the request weeks ago but the documents had been lost in the mail... "This is not so much about Kemper as it is [...]
by Craig Richardson E&E Legal Executive Director On October 21, E&E Legal and FME Law once again sued the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under FOIA to compel production of key federal records. The records relate to FERC having conditioned its stalled approval of Constellation Energy’s merger with Exelon Corporation upon payment of a then-record settlement [...]
For Immediate Release: October 21, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, Free Market Environmental Law Clinic Forced to File Third Suit Against FERC to Compel them to Release FOIA'd Documents Washington, D.C. - The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), joined by the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law,) [...]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org WATCHDOG ORGANIZATIONS REQUEST EPA INSPECTOR GENERAL INVESTIGATE COLLUSION, IMPACT ON GHG RULES Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic request EPA IG investigate undue “green” lobby group influence on major EPA regulations Washington, D.C. - Following in the footsteps of a [...]
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by Barbara Hollingsworth cnsnews.com (CNSNews.com) -- Green lobbyists kept the “revolving door” at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spinning despite President Obama’s assurances to the nation that he slammed it shut on his first day in office, according to an interim report released Monday by the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal). “On my [...]
