Transparency

17 05, 2016

Press Release: E&E Legal Sues EPA for Stacking ‘Independent’ Science Panel with EPA Grant Recipients; Watchdog Groups Asks Court to Dissolve EPA Panel

2016-05-17T14:50:54-04:00May 17th, 2016|Conflict of Interest, EPA, Manipulation, Milloy, PM2.5, Press Releases, Schnare|

For Immediate Release: May17, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Sues EPA for Stacking ‘Independent’ Science Panel with EPA Grant Recipients; Watchdog Groups Asks Court to Dissolve EPA Panel Washington, DC – Last Friday, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for illegal formation of [...]

17 05, 2016

Greenwire: Group sues over makeup of scientific advisory panel

2016-05-17T15:31:04-04:00May 17th, 2016|EPA, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, PM2.5, Suits|

Sean Reilly E&E reporter A conservative legal group has gone to court to block a U.S. EPA advisory panel from convening Monday on the grounds that its members aren't independent of the agency. In a federal lawsuit filed Friday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute seeks a stay to bar the Clean Air Scientific Advisory [...]

13 05, 2016

Press Release: Virginia Circuit Court Dissolves Protective Order on GMU Professor’s E-mail;  National Campaign led by AG’s to Use RICO Against ‘Climate Skeptics’ will be Revealed in Released E-mails 

2016-05-13T14:53:57-04:00May 13th, 2016|Conflict of Interest, FME Law, Inquisition, Press Releases, RICO, Silencing Dissenters, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: May 13, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today the public came one big step closer to learning the truth behind how university professors launched “a national campaign" to have state attorneys general investigate and prosecute political opponents under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) -- investigations which [...]

2 05, 2016

Press Release: EPA Attempts to Bury its Exposed Misdeeds

2016-05-02T17:35:43-04:00May 2nd, 2016|111d, EPA, Press Releases, Schnare|

Washington, D.C. -  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) informed the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) that it had denied E&E Legal’s petition for reconsideration of the Clean Air Act New Source Rule (111b rule) for new Electric Utility Generation Units.   E&E Legal filed its petition on October 29, 2015 asking [...]

22 04, 2016

MRC: Unsettling Science: The Media’s Legal Climate Crusade Against Exxon

2016-12-11T17:07:21-05:00April 22nd, 2016|AG Collusion, Green Groups, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Rockefeller's, Scandal, Transparency|

by Julie Seymour MRCNewsBusters Galileo, the famous Italian astronomer and scientist, once said, “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Tell that to the UN IPCC and the news media. Presumably, Galileo would find the use of the so-called “scientific consensus” on global [...]

14 03, 2016

Texas Public Policy Foundation: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Destroy Navajo Nation Jobs

2016-03-15T11:05:36-04:00March 14th, 2016|Clean Power Plan, Energy Poverty, EPA, War on Coal|

by Chuck DeVore, V.P. of National Initiatives, The Texas Public Policy Foundation As Appearing in The Daily Signal The federal government and their allies are choosing dubious environmental prescriptions to effectively impose a new tax on electricity increasing the costs of energy on all Americans and businesses. These added costs will especially impact middle and [...]

5 03, 2016

Arizona Daily Sun: Profs’ emails on climate change ruled public

2016-03-07T14:11:47-05:00March 5th, 2016|Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Suits, Transparency|

by Howard Fischer Capital Media Services PHOENIX — An organization that is questioning the research behind climate change will get another chance to demand to see the emails of two University of Arizona scientists. The state Court of Appeals has overturned the ruling of a trial judge who said the university need not disclose 1,700 [...]

2 03, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue X: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00March 2nd, 2016|E&E Legal Letters, FME Law, Hardin, Transparency|

by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel There’s an old legal maxim that justice delayed is justice denied. In E&E Legal’s recent efforts to promote transparency and accountability, we have found that maxim rings true in the context of the Freedom of Information Act, as politicians and bureaucrats delay releasing records to which the public is entitled. [...]

22 02, 2016

Washington Times: Clean Power Plan reset sought after emails show collaboration bewteen EPA, greens

2016-02-23T11:55:16-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A pro-energy advocacy group is seeking to incinerate the Clean Power Plan after releasing more emails showing a key Environmental Protection Agency official collaborating behind the scenes with leading environmental activists. In a 20-page report released Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute chronicles another round of communications between environmentalists [...]

22 02, 2016

EnergyWire: Group [E&E Legal] tells court EPA took ‘marching orders’ from lobbyists

2016-12-11T17:07:22-05:00February 22nd, 2016|111d, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Green Groups, Horner, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Scandal, Schnare, Transparency|

by Ellen M. Gilmer EnergyWire Reporter As a throng of challengers file legal briefs criticizing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan as overreaching and unconstitutional, one group is stepping forward with a simpler, but serious, allegation: U.S. EPA let lobbyists write the rule. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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