17 05, 2016

Press Release: E&E Legal Sues EPA for Stacking ‘Independent’ Science Panel with EPA Grant Recipients; Watchdog Groups Asks Court to Dissolve EPA Panel

2016-05-17T14:50:54-04:00May 17th, 2016|Conflict of Interest, EPA, Manipulation, Milloy, PM2.5, Press Releases, Schnare|

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 [...]

17 05, 2016

Greenwire: Group sues over makeup of scientific advisory panel

2016-05-17T15:31:04-04:00May 17th, 2016|EPA, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, PM2.5, Suits|

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 [...]

2 05, 2016

Press Release: EPA Attempts to Bury its Exposed Misdeeds

2016-05-02T17:35:43-04:00May 2nd, 2016|111d, EPA, Press Releases, Schnare|

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 [...]

14 03, 2016

Texas Public Policy Foundation: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Destroy Navajo Nation Jobs

2016-03-15T11:05:36-04:00March 14th, 2016|Clean Power Plan, Energy Poverty, EPA, War on Coal|

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 [...]

22 02, 2016

Washington Times: Clean Power Plan reset sought after emails show collaboration bewteen EPA, greens

2016-02-23T11:55:16-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

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 [...]

22 02, 2016

EnergyWire: Group [E&E Legal] tells court EPA took ‘marching orders’ from lobbyists

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

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 [...]

22 02, 2016

Press Release: E&E Legal Files Motion, Brief, Releases Report: FOIA’d Emails Show Lobbyists-EPA Staff Co-wrote GHG Regulatory Options Using Personal Email Accounts

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|Clean Power Plan, EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Press Releases, Report, Scandal, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: February 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Files Motion, Brief, Publishes Report: Dozens of New FOIA’d Emails Show Lobbyists Allowed by EPA to Co-write GHG Regulatory Options on Senior Official’s Yahoo Email Account Group asks Court in GHG litigation to consider top Policy Office Official use of private account [...]

27 01, 2016

Free Beacon: Emails Show Steyer-EPA Coordination to Undermine Agency Critics

2016-01-29T13:05:45-05:00January 27th, 2016|Billionaire Scammers, EPA, EPA Collusion, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Steyer, Transparency|

by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon The business arm of billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer’s political advocacy network worked behind the scenes with senior administration officials to undermine a study by a federally commissioned group that criticized environmental regulations, internal emails show. Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a Steyer-funded trade association, briefed senior administration officials on [...]

20 01, 2016

Politico: New methane proposal incoming

2016-01-29T13:17:48-05:00January 20th, 2016|EPA, Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Suits|

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 [...]

15 01, 2016

Free Beacon: Group Defending Power Plant Rule Secretly Talked With EPA, Emails Show

2016-01-29T14:16:12-05:00January 15th, 2016|EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Suits, Transparency|

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 [...]

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