by Clarissa Hawes Truck.com An initial legal effort by an energy advocacy organization failed to block a meeting of an Environmental Protection Agency panel that is writing regulations to control particulate matter pollution. The Energy and Environment Legal Institute on Monday filed an application for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court in Washington, [...]
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 Valerie Richardson Washington Times House Republicans this week launched an investigation into the 17 attorneys general pursuing fraud allegations against climate change skeptics, citing concerns about the campaign’s impact on free speech and scientific inquiry. “Americans are entitled to express their views on matters of science and public policy even if certain groups disagree,” [...]
by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine E-mails uncovered by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) show several state attorneys general (AGs) who have threatened possible prosecution of climate skeptics had collaborated in previous months with anti-fossil-fuel lobbyists to shape their legal and public relations strategies. At a [...]
by Clarissa Hawes Truck.com An energy advocacy organization and a large trucking association filed a lawsuit challenging the validity of an Environmental Protection Agency panel that is writing regulations to control particulate matter pollution. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., claims that most of the members of the independent scientific [...]
Sean Reilly E&E reporter A conservative legal group has gone to court to block a U.S. EPA advisory panel from convening Monday on the grounds that its members aren't independent of the agency. In a federal lawsuit filed Friday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute seeks a stay to bar the Clean Air Scientific Advisory [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Emails released as part of a lawsuit against a George Mason University climate scientist show environmental activists had been working behind the scenes to “hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable” for their stances on global warming long before stories were published bashing ExxonMobil’s climate stance... Frumhoff’s email to Shukla was [...]
by Gayathri Vaidyanathan E&E reporter Some advocacy groups see a wrinkle in using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to prosecute corporations that have allegedly misrepresented climate science in the past, according to private emails of climate scientists. The emails were released Friday by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of think tanks, businesses and consumer groups, and individual researchers in his widening probe of organizations that have written skeptically about purported human-caused climate change and policies proposed and implemented to fight it. His efforts are a witch hunt, [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Beacon The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely described as an effort to silence political opponents. In a subpoena issued in March, the office of USVI attorney general Claude Walker [...]
