For Immediate Release: August 4, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 State AG ‘Secrecy Pact’ Aimed at Thwarting Transparency Laws Released; E&E Legal Obtains Document From DC Following Litigation Washington D.C. -The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has obtained a copy of the purported “Common Interest Agreement” led by New York’s Attorney General [...]
For Immediate Release: July 25, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 Latest E&E Legal Investigatory Report Details Efforts by Billionaire Tom Steyer to Bankroll Elections and Stifle 'Climate Change' Debate to Protect his Solar Investments Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group, released a report, Buying the Democrat [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A Democrat-led coalition of attorneys general has entered into a confidentiality agreement to avoid disclosing public records related to their investigation into climate dissent, according to a document released Wednesday. The letter from an assistant for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she cannot comply with an open-records request on [...]
For Immediate Release: July 6, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 New Documents Confirm: “Climate RICO” AGs Attempting to Write Themselves Out of Transparency Laws to Hide Abusive Campaign Washington, DC – New responses from state Attorneys General offices (OAGs) obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental [...]
by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on May 9, the Obama administration had engaged in “bad faith” in its handling of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute [...]
Statement by Board Chair and General Counsel David W. Schnare: It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our Board Member and good friend Kelly Mader last Friday. Kelly was a family man first and foremost, dedicating his life to his wife, children, and grandchildren, as well as possessing a strong [...]
by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) failed to comply with its legal obligation to reduce the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled in favor of four teenagers supported by Our Children’s Trust, the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance. The [...]
by Michael Bielawski Vermont Watchdog MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont’s Attorney General is being sued for withholding public records related to a multi-state investigation of groups opposed to climate change policies. On Monday, two nonprofit legal centers filed a lawsuit to force Attorney General William Sorrell and Assistant Attorney General Scott Kline to turn over documents from [...]
For Immediate Release: June 16, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 AZ Superior Courts Sides with E&E Legal and Orders UofA to Disclose 'Climate' Related Public Records Including Correspondence of Longtime Activists Hughes and Overpeck Washington, DC – On June 14, 2016, the Superior Court of Pima County, Arizona, the Honorable Judge James Marner, ordered the [...]
For Immediate Release: June 13, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Forced to Sue Vermont Attorney General to Release Public Records Related to Conspiracy of AG's Seeking to Use RICO to Punish and Silence Climate Change 'Deniers' Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market [...]
