by Chris White Daily Caller A conservative legal group is asking Vermont lawmakers to punish the state attorney general for his handling of a public records request regarding a high-profile investigation into Exxon Mobil. Attorney General T.J. Donovan’s office decides whether to respond to public records requests for partisan reasons, according to the D.C.-based legal [...]
by Jeff Stier Heartland Institute A pair of foreign research organizations have gotten numerous grants for work of unclear value As Democrats and the scientific establishment howl over President Trump's proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Congress is investigating whether that agency misspent U.S. tax dollars to fund two European cancer [...]
by Julie Kelly & Jeff Stier National Review A pair of foreign research organizations have gotten numerous grants for work of unclear value. As Democrats and the scientific establishment howl over President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Congress is investigating whether that agency misspent U.S. tax dollars to fund [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Executive Director On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan imposed by the Obama Administration. This order may temporarily halt the long running legal battle over the plan, thought it surely won’t end it. This directive by the President is critical in [...]
by Matt Hardin, FME Law Counsel In the modern world, government employees increasingly turn to GMail, text messaging, and phone “apps” for personal communications. So long as those communications are personal communications, there’s nothing wrong with that. But what happens when government employees use Gmail to communicate with fellow staff about work-related topics? While federal [...]
by Tom Johnson NJ Spotlight President Donald Trump yesterday carried through on a vow to roll back key elements of the Obama administration’s efforts to combat climate change, a decision likely to have profound impacts on a coastal state like New Jersey. To environmentalists, Democrats, and other critics of the new president, the step is [...]
E&E Legal's Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, and Craig Richardson, President, issued the following statements regarding President Trump's signing of today's energy independence and climate change policy executive order: Steve Milloy: President Trump did Americans a great service today by issuing his executive order on the Clean Power Plan (CPP). By putting the brakes on the CPP, President [...]
by Penny Star Breitbart The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is looking into whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has mismanaged as much as $315 million in taxpayer-funded grants awarded to the Italian research group Ramazzini Institute, an “independent” science academy that focuses on occupational and environmental health threats. On Friday, the committee [...]
by Michael Bielawski Vermont Watchdog President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent would mean an easing up on the EPA’s notoriously heavy-handed enforcement and push environmental groups to reset their priorities. The spending cuts — which are light years from a forgone conclusion — would also put pressure [...]
For Immediate Release: March 17, 2017 Contact: David Sanders Sanders@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) filed suit this week against the Department of Health and Human Services. This is the latest in a series of E&E Legal actions centering [...]
