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 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 Annalee Grant SNL Financial When reviewing broader legal challenges to the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan a federal appeals court will not consider whether the U.S. EPA and several environmental groups engaged in alleged illegal ex parte communications. Conservative legal advocacy group Energy and Environment Legal Institute had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
by Howard Fischer Capital Media Services PHOENIX — An organization that is questioning the research behind climate change will get another chance to demand to see the emails of two University of Arizona scientists. The state Court of Appeals has overturned the ruling of a trial judge who said the university need not disclose 1,700 [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum Litigation Manager On February 9th, 2016 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay halting implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency regulations that would lead to the end of coal plants in the United States. The Court in, a 5-4 decision, ordered the EPA rule “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for [...]
by Dylan Brown E&E reporter Conservative advocacy groups sued the Obama administration yesterday for internal communications regarding how the Interior Department developed a proposal to increase protections for streams near coal mines. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute and Free Market Environmental Law Clinic are seeking all email and text message correspondence during certain time [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Ethan Barton Washington Examiner A nonprofit government watchdog is suing the Department of State seeking to force the agency to disclose email and text message records of its communications with environmental activist groups like the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and World Wildlife Fund. The suit follows two Freedom of Information Act requests [...]
