Transparency

27 02, 2015

Press Release: Following Rep. Grijalva’s Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA with U of A, CU, and GA Tech for Funding and Conflict Records

2016-12-11T17:07:41-05:00February 27th, 2015|Climategate, Conflict of Interest, FME Law, Georgia Tech, Horner, Press Releases, Transparency, University of Arizona, University of Colorado, War on Coal|

For Immediate Release: February 27, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Following Rep. Grijalva Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA Requests with Georgia Tech, Universities of Colorado and Arizona Seeking Records Relating to Researchers' Funding Washington, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), in conjunction with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic [...]

26 02, 2015

Press Release: Following Rep. Grijalva’s Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA with U. of Delaware for certain records relating to funding and conflicts

2016-12-11T17:07:42-05:00February 26th, 2015|Climategate, Conflict of Interest, FME Law, Horner, Personnel, Press Releases, Transparency, University of Delaware, University of Delaware|

For Immediate Release: February 26, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Following Rep. Grijalva Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA Request with the University of Deleware Seeking Records Relating to the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), in conjunction with the Free Market Environmental [...]

25 02, 2015

Grimes: Jerry Brown’s Green Jobs Scheme Killing CA’s Middle Class

2016-12-11T17:07:42-05:00February 25th, 2015|Conflict of Interest, Green Groups, Grimes, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency, Washington State|

by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Flash Point Report Recent revelations resulted in the resignation of Democratic Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber over collusion between his office, California and Washington State governors’ offices, and environmental groups to force climate coordination and collaboration across the U.S. Emails from 2013 and 2014 [...]

24 02, 2015

Grimes: Brown Administration Tied To Scandal That Took Down Oregon Governor

2016-12-11T17:07:42-05:00February 24th, 2015|Green Groups, Grimes, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency, Washington State|

by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Flash Point Report Corruption and scandal resulting in the recent resignation of Democratic Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, appears to be just the tip of a very big iceberg. The ho-hum media coverage of the story made it sound like just another unscrupulous governor [...]

23 02, 2015

ClimateWire: West Coast pact on climate action pulled into former Ore. governor’s scandal

2015-02-23T10:33:32-05:00February 23rd, 2015|Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency, Washington State|

by Anne C. Mulkern E&E News Reporter A pact formed by West Coast leaders to team up on climate action has been caught up in the tempest that forced the resignation of Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D). Kitzhaber and California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark [...]

20 02, 2015

NewsBuster: Networks Silent About ‘Green’ Nature of Kitzhaber Corruption Scandal

2016-12-11T17:07:42-05:00February 20th, 2015|Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency, Washington State|

by Julie A. Seymour MRC NewsBuster It’s the job of a reporter to answer all the basic questions in a news story. Telling the who, what, when, where, why is foundational. Yet, the broadcast network news media omitted key details from reports on the ethics scandal that led to Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber’s resignation. ABC, [...]

18 02, 2015

Media Advisory: FOIA Attorney Horner Re: E-Mails Linked to Kitzhaber Scandal

2015-08-27T09:29:19-04:00February 18th, 2015|Green Groups, Horner, Press Releases, Scandal, Transparency, Washington State|

For Immediate Release: February 18, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 - MEDIA ADVISORY- Transparency Attorney Chris Horner, Whose Request into the Washington State Governor's Office Uncovered E-mails Linked to Kitzhaber-Green Group Scandal, Available to Discuss His Findings What: Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) Senior Legal Fellow and well-known FOIA attorney, Chris Horner, [...]

18 02, 2015

E&E Legal Files Suit Against the DOE to Compel Production of FOIA’d Documents

2015-02-18T16:18:19-05:00February 18th, 2015|DOE, Suits|

Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed suit against the Department of Energy (DOE) for certain emails and other records that also were requested in September 2014 by requested by House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and others as described in the complaint, relating to EPA's greenhouse gas NSPS rulemaking. E&E Legal [...]

17 02, 2015

Horner: Peeking behind the ‘green’ curtain: Uncovering the Kitzhaber connections

2015-02-18T14:24:21-05:00February 17th, 2015|Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Scandal, Transparency, Washington State|

By Chris Horner Senior Legal Fellow, Energy & Environment Legal Institute As Appearing in the Washington Times This week Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, leaves office, having resigned under the cloud of a cronyism and corruption scandal. A U.S. attorney has subpoenaed “records that are a catalog of Kitzhaber’s climate and economy-related initiatives,” centering [...]

15 02, 2015

NRO: Kitzhaber and the Greedy Greens: Energy isn’t the only thing that’s green when you’re pushing the clean-energy agenda.

2016-12-11T17:07:42-05:00February 15th, 2015|Green Groups, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by John Fund National Review Online Oregon governor John Kitzhaber may have announced that he will resign, but a sweeping FBI investigation of him and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is only getting started. While the story involves personal failings, the green-energy lobbying scandal that brought them down has national lessons and implications. If oil companies and pharmaceutical concerns shouldn’t exercise [...]

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