For Immediate Release: January 20, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] EPA Illegally Used Children as Guinea Pigs in Diesel Exhaust Experiments, FOIA'd Documents Show Washington, DC (Jan. 20) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exposed children as young as 10 years old to dangerous levels of diesel exhaust in medical experiments, show documents obtained [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D Heartland Institute The Energy & Environment Legal Institute is challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s renewable energy standard. In November of 2004, Colorado voters passed a referendum imposing a renewable portfolio standard on the state. This was the first time a referendum had been used to pass a renewable power mandate, occurring [...]
By Samantha Caravello Harvard Environmental Law Review Acting as laboratories for energy policy, some states have been much more effective than the federal government in promoting renewable energy development, often through the enactment of Renewable Portfolio Standards (“RPS”). RPSs require electricity-selling companies to generate a minimum percentage of their electricity from renewable sources. These minimum targets [...]
by Open Virginia Law Earlier this month, the Daily Progress and other media reported that the Supreme Court of Virginia awarded $250 in damages to climate scientist Michael Mann and the University of Virginia in a prominent Virginia FOIA lawsuit that we wrote about in April. (See also petitioners’ case documents webpage.)... It borders on epic understatement to say that the Supreme Court [...]
by The Daily Progress What a letdown. And what an irony. The Virginia Supreme Court levied damages of just $250 against the nonprofit Energy & Environment Legal Institute in its bid to obtain climate researcher Michael Mann’s emails while he was a professor at the University of Virginia... The institute says that even though it [...]
by Ileana Najarro Washington Post [Note from E&E Legal General Counsel David Schnare, who explained this to the Washington Post reporter: "There is a lot of misunderstanding about the $250 'damages' assessed by the Court. Any appellant that loses their appeal in the Virginia Supreme Court has to make this payment to the opposing party. [...]
by Climate Change Dispatch In a clear slap in the face, the Virginia Supreme Court awarded Michael E. Mann and the University of Virginia a piddling $250 in damages in the email FOIA case. Showing the triviality of the manner, the court's order (shown here) didn't even specify the rationale for the derisory amount... Read more.
by Anthony Watts Watts Up With That In a clear slap in the face, the Virginia Supreme Court awarded Michael E. Mann and the University of Virginia a piddling $250 in damages in the email FOIA case. Showing the triviality of the manner, the court’s order (shown here) didn’t even specify the rationale for the derisory amount... UPDATE: From David [...]
by Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — The Virginia Supreme Court has awarded $250 damages to the University of Virginia and former professor Michael Mann in a case that involved Mann's emails regarding climate change. The court's recent order only states the amount of damages that the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute must pay. It doesn't [...]
by Bryan McKenzie The Daily Progress It’s not the size of the penalty, it’s the principle behind it, but that principle depends on which side you’re on. The state Supreme Court has ordered the nonprofit Energy & Environment Legal Institute to pay $250 in damages to former University of Virginia professor Michael Mann and the [...]
