by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Washington Times The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to use the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to cover-up the agency’s illegal science experiments on humans. Four years ago I broke the story in this paper that the EPA was conducting [...]
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 [...]
by Ann Purvis Heartland Institute The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Maryland electricity subsidy scheme on April 20, 2016, concluding in a unanimous decision, in Hughes v. PPL EnergyPlus, the arrangement impermissibly interfered with federally regulated wholesale electric power markets... David Schnare, general counsel of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, says he would [...]
by Howard Fischer Capital Media Services PHOENIX — An organization that is questioning the research behind climate change will get another chance to demand to see the emails of two University of Arizona scientists. The state Court of Appeals has overturned the ruling of a trial judge who said the university need not disclose 1,700 [...]
by Eric Wolff Politico: Morning Energy GROUP SUES FOR STREAM RULE DOCS: The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed a FOIA lawsuit. asking the U.S. District Court in D.C. to force the Interior Department to have over communications regarding the development of the stream rule. E&E Legal is seeking stream rule-related communications between EPA and [...]
On October 9th, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court regarding the suit E&E Legal brought against the State of Colorado concerning the constitutionality of its Renewable Energy Standards (RES). E&E Legal has now asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review this case [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On October 29, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed two petitions in the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals. These petitions asked the court to review the two key prongs of EPA’s “Clean Power Plan (CPP)”, a plan which will do little if anything to help the environment, but [...]
by Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer Cato Institute The Commerce Clause, while invoked since the New Deal as a warrant for progressive federal policy, actually provides protections for businesses against state regulations that burden interstate commerce. In Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority (1986), for example, the Supreme Court struck down [...]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Petitions the Supreme Court Regarding the Constitutionality of Colorado's Renewable Energy Standards Washington, D.C. - On Friday, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court regarding the suit E&E Legal brought against the State [...]
For Immediate Release: July 14, 2015 Contact: David W. Schnare [email protected] 571-243-7975 In a brief, harmful opinion straying from well-established precedent, on Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in E&E Legal Institute v. Epel condemned the 128,000 poorest families in Colorado, many living well below the federal poverty line, to perpetual [...]
