by Jerry McConnell Canada Free Press How long has it been since It was discovered that a veritable gold mine of oil was being proposed for our use by our friends in Canada? Four or five years at least. Until our ‘Major Obstructionist and Dictator’, Barack Hussein Obama heard of it and immediately began plotting [...]
by Elana Schor E&E reporter Keystone XL proponents yesterday seized on newly released emails between U.S. EPA and the Sierra Club to accuse the agency of improper collusion with green activists organizing against the oil sands crude pipeline. The emails, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by attorney Chris Horner, [...]
by John Roberts Fox News Channel Newly disclosed emails suggest senior policy officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups are working closely to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, critics say. "These damning emails make it clear that the Obama administration has been actively trying to stop this important project for years," Sen. John [...]
For Immediate Release: January 22, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. – Additional documents obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) further illuminate the cozy, even collusive working relationship between the EPA, Sierra Club, and other pressure groups for which the Sierra Club [...]
by Chris Horner Guest Essay, Watts Up With That? The curiously titled article, “Climate scientists, facing skeptics’ demands for personal emails, learn how to cope”, in today’s E&E News “ClimateWire”http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2014/01/21/stories/1059993161 (paywalled), is characteristic of a recent uptick in the campaign to discourage universities and courts from properly interpreting open records laws for all requesters — not [...]
by Jean Chemnick and Manuel Quiñones Greenwire Coal industry allies on and off Capitol Hill have seized on emails sent between a Sierra Club lobbyist and U.S. EPA staff that they say confirm their belief that the agency and environmental advocates colluded to write a new power plant rule that would end coal-fired electric generation [...]
by Ashe Schow Washington Examiner If you thought 2013 was a tough year for the coal industry, get ready for 2014, when the “war on coal” is set to really heat up. Recent articles suggest that the damaging Environmental Protection Agency rules for coal plants from last year were just a first step, and that the agency is [...]
For Immediate Release: January 14, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. -- A 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), under its former name, the American Tradition Institute, has produced several hundred documents affirming the uncomfortably close working relationship between the current U.S. [...]
by Michal Conger Washington Examiner Emails between Environmental Protection Agency officials and the Sierra Club make clear the agency has been speaking with a forked tongue about an experimental coal emissions technology. Agency officials say the technology -- called "carbon capture and storage" -- is ready now for commercial applications to reduce carbon emissions from [...]
by CJ Ciaramella Washington Free Beacon Emails between the Sierra Club and the EPA produced through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show the green group and senior officials at the nation’s top environmental enforcer met and corresponded frequently about the agency’s work on new coal regulations. Read more.
