by Steven Hayward The Weekly Standard Magazine Over the years, “agency capture” has been a staple of the economic analysis of regulation—the phenomenon whereby regulatory agencies would come to be largely controlled by the industries they purported to regulate, or at the very least would protect those industries as a cartel in a tradeoff for [...]
by Doug McKelway Fox News Numerous emails appear to show close coordination between the EPA and environmental groups in drafting the controversial Clean Power Plan which could mark the demise of coal-fired power plants in the United States. The emails, obtained by Fox News, came to light in a lawsuit filed by the Energy and [...]
by Inquisitr A recent report, based on emails obtained in Freedom of Information requests, indicated alleged collusion between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Obama Administration and Environmental special interest groups, the Washington Times reported. A report from the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) documents the alleged collusion between the EPA and some “eco-friendly groups” [...]
by Ben Wolfgang Washington Times The Obama administration’s controversial climate change agenda is being driven largely by outside forces in the environmental community, and powerful activist groups have played a major — and perhaps illegal — role in crafting key Environmental Protection Agency policies, a detailed report released Thursday charges. Emails obtained by the Energy [...]
Anthony Watts Watts Up With That Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a 501 (c) (3) watchdog group, released an investigatory report, Back to Square One: Unlawful Collusion with Green Pressure Groups Should Doom U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulation and an appendix of source documents. The report, which is [...]
by Joseph Weber Fox News They worked hard, they played hard. Newly obtained emails reveal a seemingly close relationship, during and after work hours, between an EPA office and influential environmental groups -- showing a top agency official encouraged one such group to write an anti-coal report and even invited members to a summer bash [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Emails obtained by a free-market legal group show that EPA officials may have been using talking points given to them by a policy expert with the Center for American Progress (CAP) — a think tank founded by Clinton adviser John Podesta and backed by liberal billionaire George Soros. Then-CAP [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A prominent left-wing group helped formulate Environmental Protection Agency talking points designed to sell a controversial regulatory scheme to skeptical journalists, internal emails show. The emails show Joseph Goffman, the senior counsel of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, circulating talking points from Center for American Progress climate strategy [...]
by Emily Zanotti The Commentary & Policy Blog of the Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency has been working, for some time, to craft regulations on coal plants that would dramatically limit both their carbon emissions and their capacity to provide an energy source – electricity – to the majority of Americans in an affordable way. [...]
