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 [...]
For Immediate Release: September 20, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today, after a long-delayed, nearly 500-page document production from EPA last week, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) updated its report detailing the degree to which EPA worked with outside special interest groups such as the Sierra Club, Clean Air Task Force [...]
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) will once again be forced to file suit against a "Climate RICO" state attorney general's office for its role in a political coalition using law enforcement powers to silence opposition to the "climate" agenda. This most recent [...]
For Immediate Release: September 14, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – Documents released today by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) add to questions raised over the weekend with the release of correspondence showing New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s recruitment of eco-billionaire Tom Steyer to support his run for governor. These [...]
For Immediate Release: August 9, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – On the heels of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) releasing the copy of the a secrecy pact between Democratic Attorneys General led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, obtained after a months-long fight with these AGs to keep it from the public, E&E Legal has posted a March [...]
