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E&E Legal v. EPA

15 01, 2014

Independence Institute: Emails Show EPA’s Denver “Listening Tour” Stop A Collaboration Between Agency, Environmentalist Orgs

2014-02-19T12:23:27-05:00January 15th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

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 [...]

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14 11, 2013

Washington Examiner: Think tanks tell court EPA using FOIA fees to hide public documents

2013-11-15T18:37:31-05:00November 14th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

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 [...]

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25 04, 2013

ATI & CEI Dismiss IM Lawsuit Against EPA; Agency’s Detailed Response Prompts New Inquiries for Records

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 25th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Petition Litigation, Press Releases, Transparency|

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.  [...]

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9 04, 2013

ATI, CEI FOIA Suit for EPA’s Instant Messages Leads EPA Head to Acknowledge Poor Record Keeping, Begs Question of Extent of Legal Violations

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 9th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Press Releases, Transparency|

For Immediate Release – April 9, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org ATI, CEI FOIA Suit for EPA’s Instant Messages Leads EPA Head to Acknowledge Poor Record Keeping, Begs Question of Extent of Legal Violations WASHINGTON - Stung by widespread publicity resulting from recent American Tradition Institute (ATI) and Competitive Enterprise [...]

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9 04, 2013

EPA memo promises emphasis on transparency after FOIA lawsuit

2013-10-11T16:24:58-04:00April 9th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Michal Conger Washington Examiner Acting Administrator Robert Persiacepe circulated an agency-wide warning to Environmental Protection Agency employees yesterday about complying with the federal Freedom of Information Act. Persiacepe’s memo was issued as EPA faces a growing controversy in the news media and federal courts sparked by revelations earlier this year that his predecessor used [...]

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3 04, 2013

Conservative groups sue for EPA officials’ instant messages

2013-10-11T16:25:44-04:00April 3rd, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Michael Conger Washington Examiner Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for instant- message records for several top officials, including former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” account and Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to succeed Jackson. The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute have sued for IM chats from [...]

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2 04, 2013

Groups sue EPA for top officials’ instant-message records

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 2nd, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Ben Geman The Hill Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to compel disclosure of instant-message chats involving former Administrator Lisa Jackson, Gina McCarthy, the senior regulator nominated by President Obama to lead the EPA, and others. The new lawsuit, filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute, alleges that [...]

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2 04, 2013

Busting the EPA’s secret government

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 2nd, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Thomas Lifson American Thinker Something is rotten in the EPA, and Christopher Horner is the man exposing it. For reasons undisclosed, the agency with vast discretionary power over the minutiae of operating a business in the United States has chosen to violate the law and engage in undisclosed secret communications, in utter violation of [...]

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1 04, 2013

Lawsuit against EPA seeks evidence of hidden messages

2013-10-11T16:26:47-04:00April 1st, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Stephan Dinan Washington Times Top Environmental Protection Agency officials used computer instant messages to try to circumvent open-records laws, according to a lawsuit filed by a researcher who has been hounding the agency to comply with the law. Christopher C. Horner, the researcher who earlier uncovered that EPA officials were using private email addresses [...]

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1 04, 2013

ATI , CEI Sue EPA for Instant Messaging Records: Potential Landmark Case Seeks Discussions on Agency’s War on Coal, Role of Pressure Groups from Little Known Accounts that Have Escaped

2013-10-11T10:45:05-04:00April 1st, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Press Releases, Transparency|

WASHINGTON - In what could be a landmark case, two free market groups the American Tradition Institute's Environmental Law Center and the Competitive Enterprise Institute have filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the Environmental Protection Agency seeking communications among senior EPA officials using instant messaging or IM technology. In the joint lawsuit [...]

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