by Catherine Boudreaux Politico The agency has been sued under the Freedom of Information Act for failing to release public documents related to its use and review of studies from the Ramazzini Institute, an Italian research organization that has raised questions about the safety of such chemicals as glyphosate and aspartame. In a complaint filed [...]
by Jack Fitzgerald Morning Consult A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit Thursday with the D.C. Circuit Court against the Environmental Protection Agency in a back-and-forth over information regarding the agency’s research into whether a widely used herbicide could cause cancer. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed an action under the Freedom of Information [...]
For Immediate Release: September 29, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to force the Agency to begin turning over documents it promised to release under a May 2016 [...]
For Immediate Release: September 6, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, Sept. 6 – On Thursday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute learned that the Washington-based Free Market Environmental Law Clinic filed an appeal to a “no records” response from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Having led several high-profile open records investigations in recent years, [...]
by Jason Devaney NewsMax The U.S. government has kept the recipients of $25 million in legal fees stemming from environmental lawsuits a secret in the Obama administration, according to a new report. The Daily Caller News Foundation discovered that more than $49 million in public money has been paid to lawyers stemming from lawsuits pertaining [...]
by Jason Devaney NewsMax The U.S. government has kept the recipients of $25 million in legal fees stemming from environmental lawsuits a secret in the Obama administration, according to a new report. The Daily Caller News Foundation discovered that more than $49 million in public money has been paid to lawyers stemming from lawsuits pertaining [...]
by Will Wray Jr., E&E Legal local counsel in RI, and president of the Rhode Island Lawyers’ Chapter of the Federalist Society As Appearing in the Providence Journal I have just filed a lawsuit against Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin on behalf of two non-profit organizations, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute and the [...]
by Will Wray Jr., E&E Legal local counsel in RI, and president of the Rhode Island Lawyers’ Chapter of the Federalist Society As Appearing in the Providence Journal I have just filed a lawsuit against Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin on behalf of two non-profit organizations, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute and the [...]
For Immediate Release: July 27, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Forced to Sue Rhode Island Office of Attorney General for Improperly Withholding AGs’ ‘Secrecy Pact’, to Hide RICO Campaign to Punish and Silence Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market [...]
For Immediate Release: June 16, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 AZ Superior Courts Sides with E&E Legal and Orders UofA to Disclose 'Climate' Related Public Records Including Correspondence of Longtime Activists Hughes and Overpeck Washington, DC – On June 14, 2016, the Superior Court of Pima County, Arizona, the Honorable Judge James Marner, ordered the [...]
