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16 07, 2014

Press Release: New Report Shows EPA Improperly Denies FOIA Fee Waivers for Disfavored Groups, Inspector General Again Improperly Limits Inquiry into Abuses

2016-12-11T17:07:58-05:00July 16th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Press Releases, Report, Richardson, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: July 16, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org EPA Bias on FOIA Fee Waivers – A Report on Abuses and Imminent Office of the Inspector General Whitewash The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) released a report today illuminating how, for the second time in [...]

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27 06, 2014

Legal Letters Issue III: The Hunt for Missing EPA records goes to the NSA

2016-12-11T17:07:58-05:00June 27th, 2014|E&E Legal Letters, EPA, FME Law, Mandelbaum, NSA, Transparency|

By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On June 5, 2013, the first of a series of news stories appeared revealing the extent of the information leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Ultimately, this information exposed a massive effort on the part of the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect “metadata” about electronic communications such as [...]

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19 06, 2014

The Daily Signal: Lawsuit Seeks EPA Administrator’s Deleted Messages

2014-06-23T09:02:28-04:00June 19th, 2014|EPA, FME Law, Horner, Media Coverage, NSA, Transparency|

by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal What have top officials within the Environmental Protection Agency been telling various environmental groups in their phone, email and text messages? That’s a question Chris Horner...can’t answer yet because the EPA claims it does not store this kind of data—in violation of the law. But it’s possible the National [...]

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9 06, 2014

Press Release: E&E Legal and FME Law Sue NSA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records that EPA Destroyed but Spy Agency Grabbed

2016-12-11T17:07:58-05:00June 9th, 2014|EPA, EPA Collusion, FME Law, Horner, NSA, Press Releases, Schnare, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: June 9, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal and FME Law Sue NSA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records that EPA Destroyed but Spy Agency Grabbed; Records Relate to Administrator Gina McCarthy’s Destroyed Text Messages, Former Administrator Lisa Jackson’s Verizon Account She Used to Correspond with Lobbyists Washington, D.C. – Today, [...]

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3 04, 2014

Drew Johnson: The EPA’s Inappropriate Alliance with Radical Environmental Groups Must Stop

2014-04-03T16:24:38-04:00April 3rd, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Transparency|

by Drew Johnson Senior Fellow, Taxpayers Protection Alliance As appearing in the Rockland County Times While running for reelection in 2012, President Obama repeatedly claimed that he would pursue an “all of the above” energy policy. But after winning a second term, his administration seems to have decided that “all of the above” doesn’t include [...]

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2 04, 2014

FoxNews.com: EPA accused of stonewalling records requests from conservative groups

2025-12-09T12:25:02-05:00April 2nd, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Selenium, Transparency|

  A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, accusing the agency of stonewalling records requests and engaging in political bias when granting fee waivers for documents. The Washington, D.C.-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed the suit in U.S. District Court in an attempt to force the EPA to [...]

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1 04, 2014

Washington Times: Conservative group sues EPA over open-records requests

2025-12-09T12:41:16-05:00April 1st, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Selenium, Transparency|

By Stephen Dinan Washington Times A conservative legal group sued the EPA on Tuesday, arguing that the agency engages in political discrimination when deciding which open-records requests it will fulfill. The lawsuit comes after congressional Republicans found the Environmental Protection Agency regularly grants liberal groups a break on open-records fees, but denies conservative groups the [...]

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1 04, 2014

Daily Caller: Conservative group sues EPA over its ‘IRS-like’ tactics

2014-04-01T16:41:03-04:00April 1st, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Selenium, Transparency|

by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller News Foundation A conservative environmental law group is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its alleged “IRS-like” tactics, including stone-walling federal records requests and imposing fees on conservative groups that sought government records. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute is trying to force the EPA to release records previously denied [...]

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1 04, 2014

Press Release: E&E Legal Sues EPA For Failure to Release FOIA’d Selenium Documents

2016-12-11T17:08:00-05:00April 1st, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Petition Litigation, Press Releases, Schnare, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: April 1, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal Sues EPA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records Related to the Agency’s Regulation of the Trace Element Selenium, Which EPA Has Used in its Ongoing “War On Coal” to Deny, and in One Case Retroactively Veto, Mining Permits Washington, D.C. – The [...]

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26 03, 2014

Daily Caller: Confidential document revels the Sierra Club’s plan to shut down the coal industry

2016-12-11T17:08:00-05:00March 26th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Keystone XL, Media Coverage, Transparency, War on Coal|

by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A major environmental group is launching a massive campaign to strangle the coal industry, push green energy sources and increase electricity prices for much of the country, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. TheDCNF obtained an internal Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign document from an anonymous source. The [...]

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