Today, the Free Market Environmental Law Center (FME Law) and the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a FOIA request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking "copies of all emails: 1) sent or received by either Jon Wellinghoff, or Norman Bay of FERC’s Office of Enforcement, 2) which use in either the [...]
by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal What have top officials within the Environmental Protection Agency been telling various environmental groups in their phone, email and text messages? That’s a question Chris Horner...can’t answer yet because the EPA claims it does not store this kind of data—in violation of the law. But it’s possible the National [...]
by Julian Hattem The Hill In a new twist to the surveillance debate, conservative groups are asking the National Security Agency for help obtaining phone and email records about the Obama administration. Republicans on Capitol Hill and right-leaning organizations have asked the National Security Agency to hand over email and phone records about the Internal [...]
For Immediate Release: June 9, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal and FME Law Sue NSA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records that EPA Destroyed but Spy Agency Grabbed; Records Relate to Administrator Gina McCarthy’s Destroyed Text Messages, Former Administrator Lisa Jackson’s Verizon Account She Used to Correspond with Lobbyists Washington, D.C. – Today, [...]
On Thursday, May 8th, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner appeared on Cavuto, on the Fox Business Channel. The topic of the show was: Making renewable energy profitable not a legitimate government goal? To view the segment, click here.
A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, accusing the agency of stonewalling records requests and engaging in political bias when granting fee waivers for documents. The Washington, D.C.-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed the suit in U.S. District Court in an attempt to force the EPA to [...]
By Stephen Dinan Washington Times A conservative legal group sued the EPA on Tuesday, arguing that the agency engages in political discrimination when deciding which open-records requests it will fulfill. The lawsuit comes after congressional Republicans found the Environmental Protection Agency regularly grants liberal groups a break on open-records fees, but denies conservative groups the [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller News Foundation A conservative environmental law group is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its alleged “IRS-like” tactics, including stone-walling federal records requests and imposing fees on conservative groups that sought government records. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute is trying to force the EPA to release records previously denied [...]
For Immediate Release: April 1, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal Sues EPA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records Related to the Agency’s Regulation of the Trace Element Selenium, Which EPA Has Used in its Ongoing “War On Coal” to Deny, and in One Case Retroactively Veto, Mining Permits Washington, D.C. – The [...]
by Ashe Schow Washington Examiner Classic Washington: hire someone based on political reasons and not actual qualifications, and hope no one notices. And if someone notices: ignore, ignore, ignore. That's the path chosen by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has refused to turn over documents relating to an October 2013Freedom of Information Act request regarding [...]
