“We are delighted with President-elect Trump’s selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Pruitt has led the charge in recent years to confront head on the enormous federal regulatory overreach proposed by the EPA as epitomized by the Clean Power Plan and Waters of the U.S. [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (VA OAG) seeking records pertaining to that office's participation in the New York AG Eric Schneiderman-led campaign against political opponents of the "climate" agenda. This follows the Virginia AG's release of unredacted documents it had been [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Summer 2016. Click headlines for the full article. Documents Illuminate AGs Politicized Climate Campaign Against Exxon by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, as appearing in RealClear Energy On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General [...]
For Immediate Release: November 16, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) was forced to file an open records suit with exhibits against yet another “Green 20” state attorney general (AG), this time Virginia’s Mark Herring. Herring was an early signatory to the aborted political coalition among activist AGs [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As Appearing in Inside Business Daily Billionaire Tom Steyer vowed to make climate change a major issue in the 2016 election. His plan was to link arms with the AFL-CIO to mobilize the Democratic base and recruit Millennial voters to rise up to defeat Donald Trump and put [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As appearing InsideSources One name surfaces again and again in WikiLeaks’ email to expose the corrosive influence of the Greens’ “rich uncle,” hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer. The eye-opening leaks show a pattern of Steyer wielding his fortune to bend Democratic politics in pursuit of his personal green [...]
For Immediate Release: October 7, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Schneiderman Unlawfully Withholding Documents Which Other FOI Requests Prove Exist, and are Not Privileged Washington, D.C. – After months of stonewalling of public information requests by New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) was once again forced to file suit against that office to [...]
For Immediate Release: September 28, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. — Yesterday Rhode Island U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse once again used his office to promote the agenda of party donors such as green billionaire Tom Steyer, and other environmental activists, taking to the U.S. Senate floor and using official business time to attack the Energy & Environment Legal [...]
For Immediate Release: September 26, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) released a short 50 second video juxtaposing Hillary Clinton's emphatic vow during her party's presidential primaries last spring, that she intends to put "a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business", with visual reminders of the suffering [...]
For Immediate Release: September 21, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C - This week, the Superior Court of Washington County, Vermont denied an effort by the state's Attorney General to dismiss an open records lawsuit filed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute. E&E Legal was compelled to file this suit when it received no cooperation [...]
