by Donald van der Vaart, Secretary of North Carolina’s Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources As Appearing in The Hill President-elect Donald Trump has named Myron Ebell to head up his transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The news was met with name-calling, even though Ebell agrees with the same position taken by a former [...]
by Thomas Richard Blasting News Emails released yesterday by the E&E Legal Institute show how the EPA used ‘offline channels’ to work with anti-fossil fuel activists, environmental reporters, green groups, and lobbyists to craft global warming rules. E&E Legal (EELI) notes this back-channeling was used to thwart FOIA requests and federal recordkeeping laws as the [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A newly released cache of government emails offers more evidence of behind-the-scenes collusion between the Environmental Protection Agency and green groups in crafting greenhouse-gas regulations, including an effort by one green lobbyist to enlist the EPA in fundraising. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute issued a report Tuesday based on [...]
For Immediate Release: September 20, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today, after a long-delayed, nearly 500-page document production from EPA last week, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) updated its report detailing the degree to which EPA worked with outside special interest groups such as the Sierra Club, Clean Air Task Force [...]
Marcellus Drilling News A senior official in the Obama administration who works for the Environmental Protection Agency has a potty mouth. That’s probably the rule rather than the exception. However, this particular potty mouthed person–Michael Goo (formerly the EPA’s policy chief)–has been caught colluding with radical environmentalists at the nutty Sierra Club. Goo called some [...]
by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon A lobbyist tried to enlist a top Environmental Protection Agency official to help his environmental group raise money for advocacy campaigns supporting major EPA regulations, internal emails show. Conrad Schneider, the top lobbyist for the left-wing Clean Air Task Force, was in frequent contact with Michael Goo, EPA’s [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A former senior EPA official known for coordinating with environmentalists slammed the White House for pushing back on agency plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas, text messages show. Michael Goo, EPA’s policy chief at the time, texted Sierra Club lobbyist John Coequyt that if environmentalists “want [...]
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 Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine E-mails uncovered by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) show several state attorneys general (AGs) who have threatened possible prosecution of climate skeptics had collaborated in previous months with anti-fossil-fuel lobbyists to shape their legal and public relations strategies. At a [...]
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 [...]
