by Valerie Richardson Washington Times In the hours before they took the stage for their March 29 press conference, Democratic attorneys general received a secret briefing from two top environmentalists on pursuing climate change dissenters. Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Accountability Institute’s Matt Pawa spent 45 minutes each providing [...]
For Immediate Release: April 15, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Emails Reveal Schneiderman, Other AG’s Colluding with Al Gore and Greens to Investigate Climate Skeptics Washington, D.C. (April 15, 2016) – The offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), and other politically-aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists in their investigations [...]
by Kevin Bogardus E&E reporter The Energy & Environment Legal Institute has added an opponent of wind energy to its ranks. Kevon Martis has joined the conservative-leaning group as a senior policy fellow. Martis is the founder and executive director of the Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition, where he campaigned against the building of industrial wind [...]
For Immediate Release: April 14, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Kevon Martis, Founder of Interstate Informed Citizen's Coalition, Joins E&E Legal as Senior Policy Fellow Washington, D.C. – David W. Schnare, Chair and General Counsel of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), announced today that Kevon Martis, Founder and Executive Director of the Interstate Informed [...]
For Immediate Release: March 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Recent E-mail Documents Secured Through FOIA Production Reveal Continued Pattern of Using Private E-mails Accounts -- Lobbyist Requests Senior Counsel Pass Lobbying Memo to Administrator's Private E-Mail Account Washington, D.C. – A recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted by the [...]
by John Siciliano Washington Examiner Federal judges gave the Environmental Protection Agency a win on Monday, by rejecting a conservative group's request that they consider evidence showing how "green" groups colluded with the agency in developing the administration's landmark climate rules for power plants. The Energy and Environment Law Institute, or E&E Legal, said Monday [...]
The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is extremely disappointed that the DC Circuit three judge panel refused to consider whether the EPA was improperly influenced by so called 'green' groups when the agency put forth the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that intended to "bankrupt" coal power plants and eliminate coal miners jobs throughout [...]
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 Valerie Richardson Washington Times A pro-energy advocacy group is seeking to incinerate the Clean Power Plan after releasing more emails showing a key Environmental Protection Agency official collaborating behind the scenes with leading environmental activists. In a 20-page report released Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute chronicles another round of communications between environmentalists [...]
by Ellen M. Gilmer EnergyWire Reporter As a throng of challengers file legal briefs criticizing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan as overreaching and unconstitutional, one group is stepping forward with a simpler, but serious, allegation: U.S. EPA let lobbyists write the rule. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
