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17 02, 2017

Statement on the Confirmation of OK Attorney General Scott Pruitt As EPA Administrator

2017-02-17T13:30:39-05:00February 17th, 2017|Announcement, EPA, Press Releases, Richardson, Transition|

Craig Richardson, president of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, issued the following statement regarding the confirmation of Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: America’s manufacturers, energy producers, farmers, ranchers, small business owners, and families have reason to celebrate today’s confirmation of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the next Administrator of the [...]

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3 02, 2017

Walcher: If I had a billion dollars

2017-02-06T15:11:01-05:00February 3rd, 2017|EPA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in The Daily Sentinel If you had $1.2 billion to spend, what would you do with it? Before you answer, there are some strings attached. First, you are required to invest in electric vehicle technology, electric vehicle infrastructure, or something that would result in “zero [...]

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31 01, 2017

Tanton: Federal Energy Efficiency Mandates: DOE’s End Run vs. the Public Interest

2017-02-01T14:23:07-05:00January 31st, 2017|Conflict of Interest, DOE, Media Coverage, Tanton|

by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Mark Krebs As appearing in MasterResource Part I This is Part 1 in a two-part article about an abuse of the Request for Information (RFI) process at the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficient and Renewable Energy (EERE). The issue involves revising [...]

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29 01, 2017

Cooke: Media overreacts and mischaracterizes normal EPA transition

2017-02-01T13:56:32-05:00January 29th, 2017|Cooke, EPA, Media Coverage, Transition|

by Amy Oliver Cooke, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Complete Colorado Last fall, the media reached a new low. According to a Gallup poll, fewer than one-third of Americans expressed confidence in the fourth estate’s ability “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly,” the lowest since Gallup began asking in [...]

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20 01, 2017

Walcher: Does the red fern grow?

2017-02-06T14:45:17-05:00January 20th, 2017|EPA, Media Coverage, Transition, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in The Daily Sentinel At the risk of repeating myself (this is a recurring theme), there are many examples of major environmental controversies that aren’t really about the environment. Far too often, adversaries face each other across courtrooms arguing not about environmental protection, but about [...]

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17 01, 2017

CNSNews.com: Contentious Confirmation Hearing Expected for Trump’s EPA Nominee

2017-01-20T14:55:20-05:00January 17th, 2017|EPA, Media Coverage, Richardson, Trump Transition|

by Barbara Hollingsworth CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – Supporters and opponents of Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are gearing up for what is expected to be a contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Wednesday morning... Craig Richardson, executive director [...]

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23 12, 2016

Daily Caller: Legal Loophole Lets Feds Delete Tons Of Official Records

2017-01-04T16:58:12-05:00December 23rd, 2016|Conflict of Interest, EPA, Mandelbaum, Media Coverage|

by Kathryn Watson Daily Caller A loophole in federal law allows Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees and other federal workers get away with deleting millions of official records created using cellphone text messaging, according to government transparency experts. The Federal Records Act (FRA) and EPA policy allow individual employees who create and receive cell phone [...]

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18 12, 2016

Washington Times: Longtime EPA foe goes behind enemy lines on Trump ‘landing team’

2016-12-19T13:36:58-05:00December 18th, 2016|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transition|

by Stephen Dinan The Washington Times For a decade, he has used open-records laws to pry loose some of the EPA’s secrets. Now Christopher Horner is on the inside, part of President-elect Donald Trump’s landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency, preparing the way for the next administration. Perhaps no issue will see a greater [...]

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12 12, 2016

GreenWire: Agency’s FOIA adversary now on the inside

2016-12-19T14:38:54-05:00December 12th, 2016|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transition, Transparency|

by Kevin Bogardus E&E News reporter Christopher Horner, a relentless hunter of U.S. EPA documents, is now allowed inside the agency's walls. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a member of President-elect Donald Trump's agency landing team for EPA, the transition team announced Friday. As part of the landing team, Horner [...]

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9 12, 2016

MidStream Business: Trump Taps EPA Foe To Run Agency

2016-12-09T15:42:14-05:00December 9th, 2016|EPA, Richardson, Transparency, Trump Transition|

by Darren Barbee Heart Energy After years of discord and conflict with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the oil and gas industry may finally have a ringer headed to the director’s chair at the agency. Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt, named by President-elect Donald Trump to head the agency, is in tight with companies such [...]

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