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 [...]
For Immediate Release: March 26, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal Sues FERC to Compel Production Under FOIA of Emails Relating to Former Chairman’s Efforts to “Burrow” Political Appointee Norman Bay as Career Employee, Ensuring Continued Influence as He Prepared to Depart for Private Law Practice Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal [...]
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 [...]
For Immediate Release: March 10, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org EPA’s Endangerment Finding, Proposed “New Source Performance Standard” (NSPS) Marred by Collusion and Predetermined Agenda with Leftist Green Groups E&E Legal Files Regulatory Comment Arguing NSPS Is Unconstitutional Washington, D.C. – In a formal regulatory comment submitted today, the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), with assistance [...]
For Immediate Release: January 22, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. – Additional documents obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) further illuminate the cozy, even collusive working relationship between the EPA, Sierra Club, and other pressure groups for which the Sierra Club [...]
For Immediate Release: January 14, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. -- A 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), under its former name, the American Tradition Institute, has produced several hundred documents affirming the uncomfortably close working relationship between the current U.S. [...]
For Immediate Release January 7, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson 202-758-8301 Richardson@eelegal.org On Thursday, January 9, 2014, the Virginia Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in ATI v. UVA. In January 2011, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), under its old name, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), filed a FOIA request with the University [...]
For Immediate Release: November 14, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, Richardson@eelegal.org Washington, D.C. -- Today, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a Brief of Appellant with the Virginia Supreme Court against the University of Virginia (UVA) for their failure to release e-mails of former UVA professor, Dr. Michael Mann, related to his "climate" research. The [...]
On September 23, 2013, the Virginia Supreme Court awarded an appeal in the matter ATI v. UVA (ATI is E&E Legal's former name). The Court accepted three questions for review; (1) whether the University could make citizens pay for review of documents they want to withhold, (2) what the meaning of the term "of a [...]
For Immediate Release: October 3, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, richardson@eelegal.org Introducing The Energy & Environment Legal Institute Board of Directors Votes to Change Name from The American Tradition Institute (ATI) Washington, D.C. - The Board of Directors recently voted to change the name of the American Tradition Institute (ATI) to The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E [...]
