by Chris White The Daily Caller The New York attorney general engaging in a highly publicized probe into oil producer ExxonMobil solicited meetings from an influential billionaire Democratic donor, according to emails obtained Monday by the New York Post. Four months after announcing the Exxon investigation, Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tried to finagle meetings [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A former senior EPA official known for coordinating with environmentalists slammed the White House for pushing back on agency plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas, text messages show. Michael Goo, EPA’s policy chief at the time, texted Sierra Club lobbyist John Coequyt that if environmentalists “want [...]
by Becky Fenger The Heartland Institute As our nation marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Towers, I again ask the question: How long will Americans allow misguided environmentalism and bureaucratic complacency to endanger the lives of our citizens?... Three days after the Twin Towers’ disaster, Steve Milloy – publisher [...]
by Brian Freeman Newsmax.com A senior Environmental Protection Agency official used an expletive — a term for male genitalia used to describe a foolish or contemptible person — when he called those in the White House who resist efforts to regulate fracking "********," according to a report in The Washington Free Beacon. In a text [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A senior Environmental Protection Agency official privately complained about “dickheads” in the White House who resisted efforts to regulate an innovative oil and gas extraction technique, newly released documents show. Michael Goo, then the EPA’s policy chief, complained to a Sierra Club lobbyist that the White House Office of [...]
by Joe Bast, president & CEO Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been twisting science and epidemiology to fit an extreme environmental agenda for years, but finally, finally!, it may be about to be hoisted with its own petard. Assuming, that is, that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) doesn’t ignore its legal [...]
by Jeff Stier The Observer With his latest plan to punish even thoughts and speech related to climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has raised the eyebrows of even his fellow climate-change activist Democrat attorneys general (AG). Officials from a number of state AG offices expressed anxiety about Schneiderman’s controversial plan to investigate [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute With other state attorneys general ultimately failing to support New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s investigation of Exxon for its past climate research, the New York Post reports Schneiderman is shifting the focus of his (illegal) legal assault... Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (EELI) [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday seeking copies of any secrecy agreements related to a multistate investigation into climate-change dissent. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court after the Democratic prosecutor rejected the free-market think-tank’s Freedom of Information [...]
by Jack Fitzpatrick Morning Consult The Department of Health and Human Services denied a conservative advocacy group’s Freedom of Information Request about communications on glyphosate, a herbicide at the center of a debate over potential carcinogens. The Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, which is affiliated with the conservative Energy and Environment Legal Institute, requested communications documents [...]