By James M. Taylor and H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal)...trounced government hacks in the grips of climate alarmist mania in two court battles recently. In the first case, Arizona’s appellate court issued a terse, seven-word decision, “Motion for Stay Pending Appeal is DENIED,” in a case in [...]
by Erin Mundahl InsideSources Environmentalists lost another fight on Thursday, after U.S. District Judge John Keenan dismissed New York City’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, and other major oil companies. In January, the city first filed a lawsuit against the energy companies, arguing that they were liable for damages the city incurred as a result [...]
Craig Richardson, president of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), issued the following statement in response to a NY Federal Judge's decision to dismiss a copycat lawsuit filed against energy companies by New York City: New York City Mayor’s Bill de Blasio effort to curry favor with the environmental billionaires who want to [...]
by the Caledonia Record Editorial Board This week Judge Mary Miles Teachout ruled the Vermont Attorney General must pay close to $66,000 in legal fees to settle its tab in a number of [E&E Legal] cases in which the AG’s office broke our freedom of information laws... Heinous Violation 1 In August of 2017, Judge [...]
by Dave Gram VT Digger The Vermont attorney general’s office may appeal this week’s order by a judge who said the state must pay about $66,000 to cover legal expenses of groups that sought and were first denied access to documents under Vermont’s public records law... In her order, [Judge Mary] Teachout concluded that “EELI [...]
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) A Vermont judge has ruled that the Vermont attorney general's office must pay nearly $66,000 in legal fees after it violated the state's public records law. The ruling Monday in Washington County Superior Court involves the AG's response to record requests made by the Washington-based Energy and Environment Legal Institute. It was [...]
On June 27, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson appeared on the Joe Thomas In-the-Morning radio show to discuss the CA Federal District Court's decision to dismiss the shakedown lawsuits against leading energy companies. Listen here.
Craig Richardson, president of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), issued the following statement in response to the U.S. District Court of Northern California’s decision to dismiss the lawsuits filed against energy companies by the Cities of Oakland and San Francisco: Environmental front groups for billionaires intent on taking over this country’s energy [...]
Washington, D.C. – Craig Richardson, president of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, issued the following statement in response to a hearing today in the Southern District of New York and a request by several energy companies to dismiss a climate change related lawsuit filed against them by New York City. Once again global elitists [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland New York City, San Francisco, and Oakland have filed lawsuits against the five largest private oil companies—BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell—claiming they are contributing to destructive climate change...New York City’s lawsuit comes just a few months after several cities in California, including San Francisco and Oakland, filed [...]
