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26 03, 2014

Press Release: E&E Legal Sues FERC to Compel Production Under FOIA of Emails Relating to Former Chairman’s Efforts to “Burrow” Political Appointee Norman Bay as Career Employee

2016-12-11T17:08:00-05:00March 26th, 2014|FERC, Horner, Press Releases, Richardson, Schnare, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: March 26, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal Sues FERC to Compel Production Under FOIA of Emails Relating to Former Chairman’s Efforts to “Burrow” Political Appointee Norman Bay as Career Employee, Ensuring Continued Influence as He Prepared to Depart for Private Law Practice Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal [...]

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26 03, 2014

Daily Caller: Confidential document revels the Sierra Club’s plan to shut down the coal industry

2016-12-11T17:08:00-05:00March 26th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Keystone XL, Media Coverage, Transparency, War on Coal|

by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A major environmental group is launching a massive campaign to strangle the coal industry, push green energy sources and increase electricity prices for much of the country, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. TheDCNF obtained an internal Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign document from an anonymous source. The [...]

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21 03, 2014

NewsMax: Legality of EPA Rules Questioned by Environmental Litigators

2016-12-11T17:08:00-05:00March 21st, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Jennifer G. Hickey NewsMax Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal emissions are unconstitutional because the agency colluded with environmental groups in formulating the rules, an attorney with a nonprofit environmental law firm tells Newsmax. On March 10, Chris Horner filed an 81-page formal regulatory comment asserting that legal precedent has established that a rule [...]

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10 03, 2014

Daily Caller: Report: EPA coal plant rule tainted by secretiveness, collusion with green groups

2014-03-10T16:42:12-04:00March 10th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, War on Coal|

Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Foundation The Environmental Protection Agency’s rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants is tainted by secretiveness and collusion with environmental groups, according to a conservative environmental lawyer. Energy and Environmental Law Institute attorney Chris Horner has presented an 81-page regulatory comment showing the EPA’s “New Source Performance [...]

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28 02, 2014

National Review Online: The EPA’s Anti-Transparency Antics

2014-02-28T17:17:17-05:00February 28th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online The Environmental Protection Agency’s anti-transparency shenanigans are as entertainingly bizarre as they are pathetic. The agency has been stonewalling Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and counsel for the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. If you recall, Horner is the public-records expert who discovered [...]

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17 02, 2014

Horner: Nothing to See Here! Shredding Parties and Hiding the Decline in Taxpayer-Funded Science

2014-02-20T14:47:02-05:00February 17th, 2014|Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Chris Horner E&E Legal Senior Fellow Guest Blogger, Watts Up With That In the early 2000’s, the public was introduced to Enron “Shredding Parties,” where documents were destroyed to avoid possible embarrassment or legal consequences. These bashes represented the height of corporate decadence, an open flouting of the law. It came from a rotten [...]

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11 02, 2014

Bonner Cohen: Emails Reveal EPA Collaboration with Activist Groups

2014-02-11T13:17:38-05:00February 11th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Keystone XL, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely collaborates with environmental activist groups to develop stringent regulatory policies and strategies, according to emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The emails confirm longstanding suspicions that EPA pursues hidden agendas on behalf of environmental [...]

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4 02, 2014

National Review Online: Keystone and the Greedy Greens

2014-02-05T08:21:01-05:00February 4th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Keystone XL, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online For the fifth time in as many years, the State Department has found that the Keystone XL pipeline would not have a significant impact on the environment or worsen carbon emissions, according to a new report released Friday. That’s further evidence that the environmental lobby’s vociferous moaning about [...]

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23 01, 2014

The New American: EPA Worked With Enviro Groups to Kill Keystone XL Pipeline

2014-01-23T18:32:52-05:00January 23rd, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Raven Clabough The New American E-mails obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been plotting with environmental groups to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Canada to Texas. The request was filed by the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute. Lawmakers indicate that the e-mails [...]

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