by Ashe Schow Washington Examiner If you thought 2013 was a tough year for the coal industry, get ready for 2014, when the “war on coal” is set to really heat up. Recent articles suggest that the damaging Environmental Protection Agency rules for coal plants from last year were just a first step, and that the agency is [...]
For Immediate Release: January 14, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. -- A 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), under its former name, the American Tradition Institute, has produced several hundred documents affirming the uncomfortably close working relationship between the current U.S. [...]
by Michal Conger Washington Examiner Emails between Environmental Protection Agency officials and the Sierra Club make clear the agency has been speaking with a forked tongue about an experimental coal emissions technology. Agency officials say the technology -- called "carbon capture and storage" -- is ready now for commercial applications to reduce carbon emissions from [...]
by CJ Ciaramella Washington Free Beacon Emails between the Sierra Club and the EPA produced through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show the green group and senior officials at the nation’s top environmental enforcer met and corresponded frequently about the agency’s work on new coal regulations. Read more.
by Michael Conger Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials are using reproduction fees to delay or avoid releasing documents under the Freedom of Information Act, two conservative think tanks said in a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy and Environment [...]
by Ron Arnold Washington Examiner There they go again. “The Environmental Protection Agency has been caught placing hurdles in the path of groups it views as hostile or inconvenient to its agenda,” veteran Freedom of Information Act hurdle-jumping attorney Chris Horner told me this week. Read more
by Michael Bastasch Washington Examiner Two sources within the Environmental Protection Agency have told government watchdog groups that the Obama administration interfered with investigations of hydraulic fracturing during the 2012 presidential campaign Read more
by Erica Martinson Politico After years of digging political dirt on the climate movement, Chris Horner has suddenly struck gold in stoking the GOP’s transparency crusade against the Environmental Protection Agency. Horner’s near-obsessive focus on unearthing federal officials’ emails, instant messages and other digital records inspired the congressional flap over former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s secondary [...]
by Henry Miller, Fellow, Hoover Institute The Daily Caller The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that the federal government will not classify or treat individuals in a discriminatory manner. That fundamental right derives from England’s Magna Carta, in which King John promised that “no free man shall be taken or imprisoned … or [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records. Read more
