Media Coverage

17 09, 2014

Washington Examiner: Group tells IRS Sierra Club evading taxes, colludes with commercial firms

2014-09-17T11:33:26-04:00September 17th, 2014|Green Groups, IRS Tax Violation, Media Coverage, Schnare|

By Mark Tapscott Washington Examiner Sierra Club officials pay no taxes on income the environmental nonprofit generates from solar panel sales by its commercial partners. At the same time, the Sierra Club Foundation functions in a manner that illegally benefits private commercial interests, including some of the nation's largest energy firms. Both allegations are contained [...]

16 09, 2014

cnsnews.com: Report: Green Lobbyists Kept ‘Revolving Door’ Spinning at EPA

2014-09-16T18:23:07-04:00September 16th, 2014|EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Barbara Hollingsworth cnsnews.com (CNSNews.com) -- Green lobbyists kept the “revolving door” at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spinning despite President Obama’s assurances to the nation that he slammed it shut on his first day in office, according to an interim report released Monday by the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal). “On my [...]

16 09, 2014

New American: Report Details Close Relationship Between EPA and Green Groups

2014-09-16T18:47:13-04:00September 16th, 2014|EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Raven Clabough The New American Freedom of Information Act requests have led to turning over e-mails that detail significant collusion between the Environmental Protection Agency and green activist groups over the climate agenda. The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) released a report on Monday based on an analysis of dozens of e-mails [...]

16 09, 2014

Washington Times: No joke: Emails show ‘collusion’ between Obama’s EPA, environmental lobby

2014-09-16T08:27:24-04:00September 16th, 2014|EPA Collusion, FME Law, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage|

by Stephen Dinan The Washington Times The EPA and environmental groups are exceptionally close for a government agency and lobby groups, with a revolving door and pressure from the groups often shaping EPA’s policies, according to a new report from a conservative watchdog group based on emails obtained in a yearslong battle with the agency. [...]

16 09, 2014

Washington Examiner: EPA rife with green conflicts of interest

2014-09-16T08:33:25-04:00September 16th, 2014|EPA, EPA Collusion, FME Law, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Mark Tapscott Washington Examiner Numerous senior officials of the Environmental Protection Agency have real or apparent "revolving door" conflicts of interest, according to a new report by a nonprofit watchdog. "Example after example clearly show that senior leadership in the EPA, made up exclusively of career bureaucrats and former, and likely future green group activists, operate [...]

16 09, 2014

Human Events: The EPA: An Agency of Lobbyists

2016-12-11T17:07:57-05:00September 16th, 2014|EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Report, Transparency|

by John Hayward Human Events I don’t wish to downplay the hard work of the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, but learning that the Environmental Protection Agency is essentially staffed and run by its own lobbyists is not surprising. It’s good to have it all documented in a concise report, entitled “Improper Collusion Between Environmental [...]

15 09, 2014

WUWT: Report – emails reveal ‘collusion’ with green activist groups over EPA climate agenda

2014-09-15T16:43:54-04:00September 15th, 2014|EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Media Coverage|

NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside ‘green’ lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question. Read more.  

28 08, 2014

Washington Times: Green-trigue: N.Y. legal memo may give Obama path to make U.N. climate deal binding

2015-01-21T13:59:47-05:00August 28th, 2014|GHG Rule, Horner, Media Coverage, War on Coal|

by Stephen Dinan Washington Times Two years ago, the New York attorney general’s office prepared a legal brief laying out a potential case for asking courts to make the U.S. cut greenhouse gas emissions based on international treaties, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Times... Christopher Horner, a researcher who regularly battles the Obama [...]

7 08, 2014

NRO: Obama’s Idea of Transparency

2016-12-11T17:07:57-05:00August 7th, 2014|EPA, EPA Collusion, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online The Obama administration is fond of claiming it is the “most transparent administration in history,” but that’s not the way it looks to people who have tried to gain access to records they are legally entitled to... The Internal Revenue Service’s handling of the Lois Lerner correspondence is [...]

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