by Mark Tapscott Washington Examiner Numerous senior officials of the Environmental Protection Agency have real or apparent "revolving door" conflicts of interest, according to a new report by a nonprofit watchdog. "Example after example clearly show that senior leadership in the EPA, made up exclusively of career bureaucrats and former, and likely future green group activists, operate [...]
by John Hayward Human Events I don’t wish to downplay the hard work of the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, but learning that the Environmental Protection Agency is essentially staffed and run by its own lobbyists is not surprising. It’s good to have it all documented in a concise report, entitled “Improper Collusion Between Environmental [...]
by John DiStaso New Hampshire Journal In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club environmental group “collaborated” in writing a press release for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on her participation in a “Clean Energy Solutions Roundtable” featuring Club and EPA officials, according to a new report by a conservative think-tank. The Energy and Environmental [...]
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside 'green' lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question Obama’s EPA in collusion with “green” lobby groups — Report details the conflicts of interest, “unalterably closed minds”, internal activism and influence of outside interest [...]
by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online The Obama administration is fond of claiming it is the “most transparent administration in history,” but that’s not the way it looks to people who have tried to gain access to records they are legally entitled to... The Internal Revenue Service’s handling of the Lois Lerner correspondence is [...]
by Chris Horner As Appearing in the Washington Examiner Text messages sent on a private telephone between Maureen McDonnell, wife of Bob McDonnell, and businessman Johnnie Williams are key evidence in the corruption trial of the formerVirginia governor, according to the Washington Post. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s aides also produced text messages in the “Bridgegate” investigation, again using private telephones. [...]
For Immediate Release: July 30, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Releases Minority Report: The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works released [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency inspector general has been accused of covering up Obama administration “transparency abuses violating several federal laws” by conservatives in the wake of a report ostensibly absolving the agency any wrongdoing in handling government records requests. A recent EPA IG report claimed there was “no indications of [...]
by Stephan Dinan Washington Times The EPA’s inspector general concluded that the agency did not show bias in denying fee waivers on open-records requests from conservative-leaning groups while approving those from liberal-leaning groups, according to an audit released Wednesday... The Energy & Environment Legal Institute, a conservative-leaning group that has regularly battled the EPA over [...]
Kevin Bogardus E&E reporter The Environment & Energy Legal Institute, a conservative-leaning group, blasted U.S. EPA in a new report over allegations of bias against agency critics' public records fee waiver requests. But EPA's inspector general office released its own report today that it found no evidence of favoring certain groups over others while processing Freedom of [...]
