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22 02, 2016

Washington Times: Clean Power Plan reset sought after emails show collaboration bewteen EPA, greens

2016-02-23T11:55:16-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A pro-energy advocacy group is seeking to incinerate the Clean Power Plan after releasing more emails showing a key Environmental Protection Agency official collaborating behind the scenes with leading environmental activists. In a 20-page report released Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute chronicles another round of communications between environmentalists [...]

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22 02, 2016

Grimes: How To Make A California Slush Fund Even Slushier

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|Cap & Trade, Conflict of Interest, Grimes, Media Coverage, Scandal|

by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report While the state of California is extracting billions of dollars from businesses and utilities through the California Air Resources Board’s cap-and-trade program auctions, the Legislature can’t decide how to spend the billions. Instead, lawmakers have been arguing over how to direct [...]

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22 02, 2016

EnergyWire: Group [E&E Legal] tells court EPA took ‘marching orders’ from lobbyists

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Ellen M. Gilmer EnergyWire Reporter As a throng of challengers file legal briefs criticizing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan as overreaching and unconstitutional, one group is stepping forward with a simpler, but serious, allegation: U.S. EPA let lobbyists write the rule. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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22 02, 2016

Daily Caller: ‘Captured’: EPA Let Green Lobbyists Write Its Global Warming Regs

2016-02-22T17:24:44-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, DOE, GHG Rule, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency|

by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The Obama administration basically let lobbyists tied to left-wing environmental groups write the government’s massive global warming regulatory scheme, according to documents obtained by a free market legal group. Attorneys with the Energy & Environment Legal Foundation (E&E) released a report Monday calling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a “captured” [...]

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17 02, 2016

Grimes: CA Air Resources Board Ignoring Deadly Truck Fires

2016-12-11T17:07:23-05:00February 17th, 2016|Conflict of Interest, Grimes, Media Coverage|

by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report California truck and business owners initiated a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board because of exploding trucks and roadside fires, due to the CARB’s mandatory, faulty diesel particulate filters, they say. Ironically, the filters even fail at cleaning the air. [...]

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1 02, 2016

Daily Caller: ‘Climate Change’ Lawyers Quietly Lay Groundwork For EPA Takeover Of US Energy Sector

2017-03-10T10:30:52-05:00February 1st, 2016|2015 Paris Talks, Clean Power Plan, GHG Rule, Horner, Media Coverage|

by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmentalist lawyers have been pushing a legal theory that would give the Environmental Protection Agency cover to regulate every facet of state energy policy — effectively eliminating state’s authority to craft their own regulations. “Buried in the Clean Air Act is an extremely powerful mechanism that effectively gives EPA carte [...]

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27 01, 2016

Free Beacon: Emails Show Steyer-EPA Coordination to Undermine Agency Critics

2016-01-29T13:05:45-05:00January 27th, 2016|Billionaire Scammers, EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Steyer, Transparency|

by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon The business arm of billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer’s political advocacy network worked behind the scenes with senior administration officials to undermine a study by a federally commissioned group that criticized environmental regulations, internal emails show. Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a Steyer-funded trade association, briefed senior administration officials on [...]

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25 01, 2016

Tanton: E&E Legal expert recommends net metering reform tactics

2016-02-04T17:08:35-05:00January 25th, 2016|Media Coverage, Net Metering, Tanton|

by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Arizona Business Daily In the midst of the controversy over Arizona’s net metering policy, one expert at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) suggests several policy reform strategies. “Costs that are incurred by the grid and (non-solar) customers [...]

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20 01, 2016

Politico: New methane proposal incoming

2016-01-29T13:17:48-05:00January 20th, 2016|EPA, Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Suits|

by Eric Wolff Politico: Morning Energy GROUP SUES FOR STREAM RULE DOCS: The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed a FOIA lawsuit. asking the U.S. District Court in D.C. to force the Interior Department to have over communications regarding the development of the stream rule. E&E Legal is seeking stream rule-related communications between EPA and [...]

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15 01, 2016

Free Beacon: Group Defending Power Plant Rule Secretly Talked With EPA, Emails Show

2016-01-29T14:16:12-05:00January 15th, 2016|EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Suits, Transparency|

by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon An environmental consulting firm that has secretly worked behind the scenes to support Environmental Protection Agency regulations released a study on Wednesday declaring one of the agency’s most controversial regulations sound. M.J. Bradley & Associates released an analysis of the EPA’s regulations on carbon emissions from existing power plants [...]

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