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22 01, 2014

Press release: E&E Legal FOIA’d Documents Expose Plans by EPA and Sierra Club/National Wildlife Fund to Employ Sketchy Economic Argument to Undermine Keystone XL Pipeline

2015-08-27T09:29:53-04:00January 22nd, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Press Releases, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: January 22, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. – Additional documents obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) further illuminate the cozy, even collusive working relationship between the EPA, Sierra Club, and other pressure groups for which the Sierra Club [...]

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21 01, 2014

Horner: The FOIA coping response in climate scientists

2016-12-11T17:08:16-05:00January 21st, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Chris Horner Guest Essay, Watts Up With That? The curiously titled article, “Climate scientists, facing skeptics’ demands for personal emails, learn how to cope”, in today’s E&E News “ClimateWire”http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2014/01/21/stories/1059993161 (paywalled), is characteristic of a recent uptick in the campaign to discourage universities and courts from properly interpreting open records laws for all requesters — not [...]

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18 01, 2014

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: The EPA: A leftist agenda

2014-01-22T09:56:43-05:00January 18th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

Editorial Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The actions of the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency long have made its extremism clear. But speaking just as loudly about how fully the far left has co-opted the EPA are its own words — in newly revealed emails that show the agency collaborating extensively with radical environmentalists. The Energy and Environment [...]

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17 01, 2014

Daily Caller: SHOWDOWN: McConnell to force vote on EPA anti-coal regulations

2014-01-21T13:27:37-05:00January 17th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will force a vote to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions from new coal-fired power plants, striking back against anti-coal activists. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said he and 40 fellow Republicans will attempt to block the EPA’s proposed rule using the Congressional Review Act [...]

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16 01, 2014

Wall Street Journal: McConnell Launches Pre-Emptive Strike on EPA

2016-12-11T17:08:16-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency, U.S. Congress|

by Alicia Mundy Wall Street Journal, Washington Wire Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky mounted a pre-emptive assault Thursday on the Environmental Protection Agency, attempting to block planned federal greenhouse gas emissions limits on new coal-fired power plants. Mr. McConnell –and 40 other Republican senators including fellow Kentuckian Rand Paul—filed a resolution of “disapproval” against the agency’s proposed [...]

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16 01, 2014

Cornyn: Emails Make It Clear EPA Has It Out For Domestic Energy Producers

2014-01-16T18:16:06-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Transparency, U.S. Congress|

Press release issued today from Senator John Cornyn's office: WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today issued the following statement after internal EPA emails requested under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the EPA has been collaborating with environmental organizations, helping these organizations gather signatures for petitions that support the EPA’s position, and giving these groups advance notice [...]

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16 01, 2014

Washington Free Beacon: McCarthy Dodges Environmentalist Coordination Questions

2014-01-16T18:11:20-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

BY: Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy dodged questions on Thursday about internal emails that appear to show top EPA officials using agency events to help environmentalist groups gather comments on agency rules. Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) grilled McCarthy on the issue at a Thursday hearing of the [...]

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16 01, 2014

E&E Greenwire: Emails between EPA, enviro group become talking point in GHG rule battle

2014-01-16T17:54:52-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Jean Chemnick and Manuel Quiñones Greenwire Coal industry allies on and off Capitol Hill have seized on emails sent between a Sierra Club lobbyist and U.S. EPA staff that they say confirm their belief that the agency and environmental advocates colluded to write a new power plant rule that would end coal-fired electric generation [...]

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15 01, 2014

Washington Free Beacon: Emails Show Extensive Collaboration Between EPA, Environmentalist Orgs

2014-01-15T17:19:06-05:00January 15th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon Internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emails show extensive collaboration between top agency officials and leading environmentalist groups, including overt efforts to coordinate messaging and pressure the fossil fuel industry. The emails, obtained by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, could [...]

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15 01, 2014

Independence Institute: Emails Show EPA’s Denver “Listening Tour” Stop A Collaboration Between Agency, Environmentalist Orgs

2014-02-19T12:23:27-05:00January 15th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Michael Sandoval Independence Institute Emails published this week by the Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markayillustrate a pattern of coordination and cooperation between the Environmental Protection Agency and external environmentalist groups, including the use of at least one agency event to “pressure” an Xcel Energy executive at the Denver stop of a 2013 “listening tour." Read [...]

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