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 Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Counsel On May 16th, 2016, the D.C. Circuit issued a surprise decision in the case regarding one piece of the ‘Obama Clean Power Plan’, ordering that the full Circuit Court would hear the case, instead of the three judge panel to which it was originally assigned to. The case, West Virginia, [...]
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 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 regulations that would lead to the end of coal plants in the United States. The Court in, a 5-4 decision, ordered the EPA rule “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for [...]
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 Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On October 29, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed two petitions in the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals. These petitions asked the court to review the two key prongs of EPA’s “Clean Power Plan (CPP)”, a plan which will do little if anything to help the environment, but [...]
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 Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel In June 2015, the D.C. Circuit decided In RE: Murray Energy, that challengers to the EPA planned carbon regulation would have to wait until EPA released the final rules to bring legal objections to these harsh regulations. On August 3rd, EPA released the final version of its Clean Power [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel From the moment the whispers of EPA’s new Carbon Pollution Standards were heard, a legal challenge was apparent. As EPA heads toward zero hour, when it will finalize the Clean Power Plan, the agency has managed to only delay the first legal challenge. A three Judge panel of the [...]
by Chaim Mandlebaum FME Law Counsel On April 30th 2015, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and WCVE PBS Richmond hosted a debate on climate change and the future. The debate was titled “Living with Climate Change” and it featured the Glen Besa, Executive Director of the Virginia Sierra Club debating with Dr. David Schnare, [...]
