by Steve Raabe The Denver Post A federal judge Friday denied a challenge to Colorado's renewable-energy standard, filed by a free-market advocacy group. U.S. District Court Judge William Martinez dismissed the challenge of the Colorado law that requires larger utilities to get 30 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020... "One state may not tell [...]
by BizWest Staff Boulder County Business Report WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States District Court for the District of Colorado on Friday maintained the legality of the Colorado Renewable Energy Standard, which requires utilities to procure up to 30 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.On April 4, 2011, the Energy & Environment Legal [...]
For Immediate Release: May 9, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org U.S. District Court Decision Regarding Colorado's RES Paves the Way for 10th Circuit Court Appeal Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. District Court for Colorado cleared the path for appellate review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit of the question as to [...]
Theresa Defino, Editor Report on Research Compliance Although the University of Virginia (U.Va.) recently won a case protecting a climate scientist’s emails, the ruling is binding only in the commonwealth, and the organization that filed suit plans to keep peppering universities around the country with similar requests under state open records laws. The Supreme Court of Virginia’s April [...]
For Immediate Release: May 5, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org U.S. District Court Grants Standing to E&E Legal in its Constitutional Challenge to the Colorado Renewable Energy Standard Washington, D.C. – On May 1st, in deciding an early motion for summary judgment, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado handed down a victory to the [...]
Mary Chew, a 2015 Rutgers University School of Law-Camden Juris Doctorate Candidate, wrote an article, "Accusations of Unethical Treatment of Humans by the EPA Results In Unpleasant Implications," for the current issue of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. She used the E&E Legal suit against the EPA - which sought to halt the agency's [...]
By Nicholas Datlowe Bloomberg BNA Bloomberg BNA — The research records of climate scientist Michael Mann are exempt from disclosure under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled April 17. “Because we do not attribute to the General Assembly an intention to disadvantage the Commonwealth's public universities in comparison to private colleges and [...]
by Alexis Sobel Fitts Columbia Journalism Review After deliberating for months, late last week the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in favor of climate scientist Michael Mann in his quest to maintain the privacy of his emails against a Virginia legislator and conservative think tank that sought to access his records using Virginia’s freedom of information laws. As I wrote last [...]
Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), joined the Pacific Legal Foundation, Cato Institute, National Federation of Independent Business Legal Center, Reason Foundation, and the California Manufacturers and Technology Association in an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision that upholds California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard against [...]
by Owen Robinson The Cavalier Daily The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday to uphold the decision to deny the American Tradition Institute access to the emails of Michael Mann, a climate scientist and former University professor, staying consistent with the Prince William County Circuit Court’s previous ruling. The American Tradition Institute, now E&E Legal, said [...]
