by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Washington Times It’s great news the Trump administration is starting to dismantle the junk science life-support system for government overregulation. Budget cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and reforms of science advisory panels at the Department of Interior and EPA, stir hope [...]
For Immediate Release: June 19, 2017 Contact: Craig Richardson info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 E&E Legal Files a Motion to Renew and Reargue with New York Supreme Court Concerning OAG FOIL Case Over Revelation of AG Efforts to Hide Schneiderman Use of Private E-mail New York, NY – Late last week, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), acting on newly revealed information about [...]
by Robert Gordon The Daily Signal Does the Environmental Protection Agency care more about its image than it does about the environment? Its behavior in response to the massive 2015 Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado would suggest a very clear “yes.” The Environmental Protection Agency is hiding its incredible recklessness in the affair by [...]
by Ben Wolfgang Washington Times Newly released documents show just how badly the State Department wanted to get the U.S. into — and now to remain a party to — the Paris climate agreement that President Trump opposed in his campaign. As Mr. Trump meets next week with other world leaders at the Group of [...]
E&E Legal Files Motion Asking Court to Intervene in Ongoing State Department Stonewall of Records Relating to Paris Climate Treaty, Reveal the Scheme's "Business Validators", Correspondence with and About Department's Partners in Advocacy In productions under 2015 litigation, State continues to redact information that agencies regularly release, and information it has disclosed to reporters, others. At [...]
by Tim Ryan Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN) – Missing statutory deadlines drew federal complaints Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency both from conservationists and a coal-funded right-wing think tank... In the same court Monday, the EPA was hit with a federal complaint by...the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Amid reports of infighting at the [...]
The following is a statement by E&E Legal's President Craig Richardson regarding the U.S. Senate's failure today to repeal Obama's methane rule: We are deeply disappointed with the outcome of today’s methane rule vote in the Senate, a measure that is projected to cost $530 million annually by 2025. This Obama-era centralized planning approach to [...]
Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Letter to the Wall Street Journal Editor Regarding your editorial “Highway From the Endangerment Zone” (April 19): Many compelling reasons exist for revisiting the EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. Based on email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and other evidence, the Obama EPA may have [...]
by Tom Fitton Breitbart News The administrative deep state – the legions of unelected, entrenched bureaucrats in Washington – thinks it doesn’t have to answer to an elected president, the rule of law, or the American people. We are now seeking to uncover the truth about the particularly notorious fifth column in the Environmental Protection [...]
by Chris White April 12, 2017 A conservative legal group is seeking communications from EPA officials who may have used a cell phone encryption app to prevent government oversight. Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday to obtain communications from agency employees who allegedly used the encryption app “Signal” to undercut President [...]
