by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon A high-level official at the Environmental Protection Agency used a personal email address to collaborate with a left-wing environmental group on major greenhouse gas regulations, newly released emails show. Michael Goo, then the head of EPA’s policy division, in May 2011 emailed John Coequyt, the director of the [...]
by Bonner R. Cohen Heartlander Magazine Saying the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had shown “apathy and carelessness” in carrying out Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from conservative organizations, a federal judge excoriated the agency for its handling of an open-records request from the Landmark Legal Foundation (LLF)... LLF’s FOIA request was made in an [...]
by Ethan Barton Washington Examiner A nonprofit government watchdog is suing the Department of State seeking to force the agency to disclose email and text message records of its communications with environmental activist groups like the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and World Wildlife Fund. The suit follows two Freedom of Information Act requests [...]
by Jean Chemnick E&E reporter A conservative group is suing the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for records related to possible involvement by environmental advocacy groups in the department's preparations for this year's high-stakes round of U.N. climate negotiations. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed suit in U.S. District Court for the [...]
For Immediate Release: March 31, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Files Suit to Compel U.S. State Department to Produce Documents Related to its Involvement with Green Activists, Certain Records Concerning "Climate Change" and the Paris, "Kyoto II" Meetings Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a lawsuit to compel the U.S. [...]
Embargoed Until: March 26, 2015 10:00 a.m. EDT Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal's David Schnare Testifies Before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Hearing on EPA's Compliance with FOIA, Federal Records Act; Says EPA's Culture of Failing to Meet its Responsibilities Under These Transparency Laws Must Change Washington, D.C. -- [...]
by Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal Conservative thought on campus these days is rare, though for some it’s still not rare enough. Witness the growing campaign by politicians, unions and environmentalists to intimidate into silence any academic or program that might challenge liberal ideology... Largely unnoticed is that the congressional climate crusaders didn’t come up [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times People who live in glass greenhouses shouldn’t throw stones. A Democrat-led congressional investigation into the funding sources of scientists they deride as climate-change “deniers” has triggered another scientific law — to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva’s investigation into the funding sources of [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Flash Point Report This is Part ll of Brown Administration Tied To Scandal That Took Down Oregon Governor. Recent revelations resulted in the Feb. 13, 2015 resignation of Democratic Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber over collusion between the California and Washington State governors’ offices, [...]
