by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Near the end of the Reagan-Bush era, in 1991, the Gallup poll showed more than three-fourths of all Americans — 78% — identified themselves as environmentalists. Nearly 40% called themselves “strong environmentalists.” But 30 years later, Gallup says those numbers had fallen to just [...]
Joe Biden ran on a promise that he would return to the devastating and economy-killing "climate change" policies of the Obama-era. Not coincidentally, policies that would give China a tremendous manufacturing advantage in the world economy since they are not beholden to the same unreachable emission reduction “goals” as the U.S. and other Western countries. [...]
Watchdog Group Seeks Records to Clarify Biden Administration's Definition of "Equity" and Other Orwellian Terms For Immediate Release: March 10, 2021 Contact: Info@eelegal.org (202-810-2001) Washington, D.C. - On Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a conservative watchdog group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Energy [...]
by Dr. David W. Schnare, Esq. Lately I have been pondering the gulf between Muir and Pinchot. As one Federal Judge remarked on a case I had before him – a difficult case that pitted preservation against conservation – “In the end, it’s a political question.” Stewardship of natural and human resources has been a [...]
by Robin Bravender E&E News reporter Environmentalists are preparing for war against President-elect Donald Trump's reported pick for U.S. EPA administrator, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt... Energy & Environment Legal Institute President Craig Richardson also welcomed Pruitt's selection and encouraged him to "gear up for battle" because "draining the EPA swamp will be met with [...]
by Robin Bravender E&E News reporter The Trump transition team has filled out the ranks of its energy and environmental agency landing teams with fierce critics of major climate regulations. After a slow start in getting transition teams up and running inside energy and environmental agencies, the transition announced a slew of new team members [...]
The President-Elect’s Transition team named me and others to the EPA Transition Landing Team today. This will upset some of you and will please others. My approach, and that of the entire transition team, is to be highly professional as we seek the information the transition team needs to create its action plans. Our job [...]
by Jack Fitzpatrick October 31, 2016 A scientist involved in an international organization researching cancer offered his resignation in April because of uncertainty over whether its documents were subject to U.S. public records laws, according to emails obtained by Morning Consult. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has been under scrutiny since it published [...]
For Immediate Release: October 25, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - The following statement is from Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) General Counsel David W. Schnare, in response to two significant developments: Reuters reporting that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) instructed U.S. public employees to withhold documents being sought by open records [...]
by Kate Kelland Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's cancer agency - which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens - advised academic experts on one of its review panels not to disclose documents they were asked to release under United States freedom of information laws. In a letter and an email seen [...]
