by Elizabeth Hewitt VT Digger After fighting for a year not to release documents to a Washington-based nonprofit, the Vermont attorney general’s office now says there are no relevant records. Chief Assistant Attorney General Bill Griffin responded late Monday to a July court order that the state turn over records relevant to a request by [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Vermont’s attorney general (AG) denied the existence of email documents showing the state’s involvement in a month’s long probe targeting fossil fuel groups, a conservative legal group reported Tuesday. Vermont’s AG office told E&E legal attorney Matthew Hardin during a court hearing Monday night that the state’s chief law enforcers [...]
For Immediate Release: August 7, 2017 Contact: info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. – On July 27th, a Vermont judge ruled favorably on two separate public records suits filed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) against the Vermont Office of the Attorney General (OAG) related to that Office's role in organizing a "climate-RICO" cabal among activist attorneys [...]
The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute was forced to file suit (along with Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2) against the National Institute for Environmental Health Studies (NIEHS) a component of the Department of Health & Human Services, after NIEHS ignored two different FOIA requests made seeking public records, specifically proposals and contracts between the agency and the [...]
by Anne Galloway Vermont Digger In a victory for open records advocates, a Washington Superior Court judge has ruled that the Vermont attorney general’s office cannot categorically deny public access to documents. Judge Mary Miles Teachout ordered the AG’s office to release records to the Energy and Environment Legal Institute in 30 days. The institute, [...]
April McCullum Burlington Free Press A Vermont judge has rejected the argument that the Vermont Attorney General's Office is exempt from state public records law and ordered the office to release some documents. The Attorney General's Office had argued in a March court hearing that because it is a law office, all of its work [...]
by David Krayden The Daily Caller The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) doesn’t want its unpublished climate change research seen by the public. The association is trying to block requests from a conservative think tank that wants to see what kind of research is being withheld from publication. The College Fix reports that the [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A new study highlights how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is able to game the rule-making system to cloak contentious policy decisions as based on science. Susan Dudley, president of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, and Marcus Peacock, executive vice president of the Business Roundtable, published a [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller A conservative legal group said Wednesday that elements within the Trump administration are hiding evidence showing government officials coordinated with outside lobbying groups while negotiating aspects of the Paris agreement on climate change. Attorneys for the Department of State filed court documents Monday in response to an E&E Legal’s open records [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller News Foundation Court documents show that the attorney general involved in a year-long probe targeting ExxonMobil’s climate records used a private email address to conduct official business. Conservative legal group Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) explained in court documents Friday that New York AG Eric Schneiderman submitted a privilege [...]
