by Elana Schor E&E reporter Keystone XL proponents yesterday seized on newly released emails between U.S. EPA and the Sierra Club to accuse the agency of improper collusion with green activists organizing against the oil sands crude pipeline. The emails, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by attorney Chris Horner, [...]
by John Roberts Fox News Channel Newly disclosed emails suggest senior policy officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups are working closely to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, critics say. "These damning emails make it clear that the Obama administration has been actively trying to stop this important project for years," Sen. John [...]
by Jim Hoft Gateway Pundit The Keystone Pipeline project was expected to create tens of thousands of high paying jobs in the oil industry. The project itself would create 20,000 construction jobs. And the pipeline would bring oil from Canada and North Dakota to refineries in the United States. But it was just a big [...]
For Immediate Release: January 22, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. – Additional documents obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) further illuminate the cozy, even collusive working relationship between the EPA, Sierra Club, and other pressure groups for which the Sierra Club [...]
by Chris Horner Guest Essay, Watts Up With That? The curiously titled article, “Climate scientists, facing skeptics’ demands for personal emails, learn how to cope”, in today’s E&E News “ClimateWire”http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2014/01/21/stories/1059993161 (paywalled), is characteristic of a recent uptick in the campaign to discourage universities and courts from properly interpreting open records laws for all requesters — not [...]
Editorial Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The actions of the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency long have made its extremism clear. But speaking just as loudly about how fully the far left has co-opted the EPA are its own words — in newly revealed emails that show the agency collaborating extensively with radical environmentalists. The Energy and Environment [...]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will force a vote to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions from new coal-fired power plants, striking back against anti-coal activists. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said he and 40 fellow Republicans will attempt to block the EPA’s proposed rule using the Congressional Review Act [...]
by Michael Sandoval Independence Institute Emails published this week by the Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markayillustrate a pattern of coordination and cooperation between the Environmental Protection Agency and external environmentalist groups, including the use of at least one agency event to “pressure” an Xcel Energy executive at the Denver stop of a 2013 “listening tour." Read [...]
by Michael Conger Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials are using reproduction fees to delay or avoid releasing documents under the Freedom of Information Act, two conservative think tanks said in a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy and Environment [...]
Washington – Yesterday, the American Tradition Institute (ATI) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) withdrew their lawsuit without prejudice that they jointly filed against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel the Agency to respond to the groups' requests for certain Instant Messages (IMs) to or from three senior current and former EPA officials. [...]
