by Ben Wolfgang Washington Times The Obama administration’s controversial climate change agenda is being driven largely by outside forces in the environmental community, and powerful activist groups have played a major — and perhaps illegal — role in crafting key Environmental Protection Agency policies, a detailed report released Thursday charges. Emails obtained by the Energy [...]
Anthony Watts Watts Up With That Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a 501 (c) (3) watchdog group, released an investigatory report, Back to Square One: Unlawful Collusion with Green Pressure Groups Should Doom U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulation and an appendix of source documents. The report, which is [...]
by Joseph Weber Fox News They worked hard, they played hard. Newly obtained emails reveal a seemingly close relationship, during and after work hours, between an EPA office and influential environmental groups -- showing a top agency official encouraged one such group to write an anti-coal report and even invited members to a summer bash [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Emails obtained by a free-market legal group show that EPA officials may have been using talking points given to them by a policy expert with the Center for American Progress (CAP) — a think tank founded by Clinton adviser John Podesta and backed by liberal billionaire George Soros. Then-CAP [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A prominent left-wing group helped formulate Environmental Protection Agency talking points designed to sell a controversial regulatory scheme to skeptical journalists, internal emails show. The emails show Joseph Goffman, the senior counsel of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, circulating talking points from Center for American Progress climate strategy [...]
by Emily Zanotti The Commentary & Policy Blog of the Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency has been working, for some time, to craft regulations on coal plants that would dramatically limit both their carbon emissions and their capacity to provide an energy source – electricity – to the majority of Americans in an affordable way. [...]
by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon A high-level official at the Environmental Protection Agency used a personal email address to collaborate with a left-wing environmental group on major greenhouse gas regulations, newly released emails show. Michael Goo, then the head of EPA’s policy division, in May 2011 emailed John Coequyt, the director of the [...]
by Clifford Smith FME Law Counsel In the blockbuster film “The Dark Knight,” Gotham City’s heroic District Attorney, Harvey Dent, first made his name as the head of the Office of Internal Affairs in the notoriously corrupt Gotham Police Department. In that position, he investigated corrupt payoffs and crooked cops, which made him a lot [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency and politically connected activist groups have proposed a legal settlement that may ignore legal protections afforded to states under federal law and could force the closure of more coal-fired power plants across the country. Environmentalists and EPA officials will likely hail the deal as a [...]
