For Immediate Release: April 1, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal Sues EPA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records Related to the Agency’s Regulation of the Trace Element Selenium, Which EPA Has Used in its Ongoing “War On Coal” to Deny, and in One Case Retroactively Veto, Mining Permits Washington, D.C. – The [...]
by Julie A. Seymour NewsBusters A group seeking access to climate scientist Michael Mann’s emails through Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) has a surprising new group of news media allies. From wire agencies to liberal Atlantic Media, Inc., 17 news groups have supported the release of documents, according to Columbia Journalism Review. “Organized by [...]
by Jennifer G. Hickey NewsMax Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal emissions are unconstitutional because the agency colluded with environmental groups in formulating the rules, an attorney with a nonprofit environmental law firm tells Newsmax. On March 10, Chris Horner filed an 81-page formal regulatory comment asserting that legal precedent has established that a rule [...]
Investor's Daily Business Editorial Junk Science: More than a dozen news organizations want to see the emails of global warm-monger Michael Mann to see what the creator of the hockey stick graph has been saying in private. This is a noteworthy turn of events. Mann is the Penn State climate scientist who in the late [...]
by Anthony Watts Watts Up With That? Get this: 17 news organizations, including NPR, WaPo, AP, now have grown a spine and filed an amicus brief (see download below) to OPPOSE in court Michael Mann’s effort to keep his UVa CLIMATEGATE-related e-mails secret. Basically, Mann’s attempt at hiding his emails of work done on public [...]
For Immediate Release: March 17, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org Washington, D.C. -- On April 1, 2014, the National Academy of Sciences and George Washington University Law School will focus a full day seminar on E&E Legal’s litigation against the University of Virginia, brought under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Entitled “The Tension Between Academic [...]
Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Foundation The Environmental Protection Agency’s rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants is tainted by secretiveness and collusion with environmental groups, according to a conservative environmental lawyer. Energy and Environmental Law Institute attorney Chris Horner has presented an 81-page regulatory comment showing the EPA’s “New Source Performance [...]
by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online The Environmental Protection Agency’s anti-transparency shenanigans are as entertainingly bizarre as they are pathetic. The agency has been stonewalling Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and counsel for the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. If you recall, Horner is the public-records expert who discovered [...]
by Michael Steyn SteynOnline You don't have to be sued by Michael E Mann to have a certain antipathy toward him. It's been fascinating to discover how many people there are who believe in "anthropogenic global warming" and believe in climate science but really, strongly dislike Mann, his methods, and his promotion of himself as [...]
by Mark Steyn SteynOnline Julie Burchill, my old boss at The Modern Review many years ago, has a bracing column in this week's Speccie on the difference between the left she grew up with and the left today: While working-class left-wing political activism was always about fighting the powerful, treating people how you would wish [...]
