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 [...]
For Immediate Release: May17, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Sues EPA for Stacking ‘Independent’ Science Panel with EPA Grant Recipients; Watchdog Groups Asks Court to Dissolve EPA Panel Washington, DC – Last Friday, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for illegal formation of [...]
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 [...]
Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) informed the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) that it had denied E&E Legal’s petition for reconsideration of the Clean Air Act New Source Rule (111b rule) for new Electric Utility Generation Units. E&E Legal filed its petition on October 29, 2015 asking [...]
by Chuck DeVore, V.P. of National Initiatives, The Texas Public Policy Foundation As Appearing in The Daily Signal The federal government and their allies are choosing dubious environmental prescriptions to effectively impose a new tax on electricity increasing the costs of energy on all Americans and businesses. These added costs will especially impact middle and [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A pro-energy advocacy group is seeking to incinerate the Clean Power Plan after releasing more emails showing a key Environmental Protection Agency official collaborating behind the scenes with leading environmental activists. In a 20-page report released Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute chronicles another round of communications between environmentalists [...]
by Ellen M. Gilmer EnergyWire Reporter As a throng of challengers file legal briefs criticizing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan as overreaching and unconstitutional, one group is stepping forward with a simpler, but serious, allegation: U.S. EPA let lobbyists write the rule. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
