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30 07, 2014

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Minority Report: The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA

2016-12-11T17:07:57-05:00July 30th, 2014|EPA, Press Releases, Transparency, U.S. Congress|

For Immediate Release: July 30, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Releases Minority Report: The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works released [...]

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18 07, 2014

Daily Caller: Watchdog: EPA IG Report Provides Cover For ‘Transparency Abuses’

2014-07-21T16:35:52-04:00July 18th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Report, Transparency|

by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency inspector general has been accused of covering up Obama administration “transparency abuses violating several federal laws” by conservatives in the wake of a report ostensibly absolving the agency any wrongdoing in handling government records requests. A recent EPA IG report claimed there was “no indications of [...]

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16 07, 2014

Washington Times: EPA showed no bias in records-request decisions: IG

2014-07-16T15:15:46-04:00July 16th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Report, Transparency|

by Stephan Dinan Washington Times The EPA’s inspector general concluded that the agency did not show bias in denying fee waivers on open-records requests from conservative-leaning groups while approving those from liberal-leaning groups, according to an audit released Wednesday... The Energy & Environment Legal Institute, a conservative-leaning group that has regularly battled the EPA over [...]

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16 07, 2014

Greenwire: IG clears agency of bias on FOIA fees; critic disagrees

2014-07-16T15:01:16-04:00July 16th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Report, Transparency|

Kevin Bogardus E&E reporter The Environment & Energy Legal Institute, a conservative-leaning group, blasted U.S. EPA in a new report over allegations of bias against agency critics' public records fee waiver requests. But EPA's inspector general office released its own report today that it found no evidence of favoring certain groups over others while processing Freedom of [...]

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16 07, 2014

Press Release: New Report Shows EPA Improperly Denies FOIA Fee Waivers for Disfavored Groups, Inspector General Again Improperly Limits Inquiry into Abuses

2016-12-11T17:07:58-05:00July 16th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Press Releases, Report, Richardson, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: July 16, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org EPA Bias on FOIA Fee Waivers – A Report on Abuses and Imminent Office of the Inspector General Whitewash The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) released a report today illuminating how, for the second time in [...]

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27 06, 2014

Legal Letters Issue III: The Hunt for Missing EPA records goes to the NSA

2016-12-11T17:07:58-05:00June 27th, 2014|E&E Legal Letters, EPA, FME Law, Mandelbaum, NSA, Transparency|

By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On June 5, 2013, the first of a series of news stories appeared revealing the extent of the information leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Ultimately, this information exposed a massive effort on the part of the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect “metadata” about electronic communications such as [...]

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23 06, 2014

E&E Legal/FME Law File FOIA Request with FERC Seeking Wellinghoff and Bay’s E-mails Related to Constellation-Exelon Merger

2014-06-24T08:57:48-04:00June 23rd, 2014|FERC, FME Law, FME Law v. FERC, Horner, Richardson, Transparency|

Today, the Free Market Environmental Law Center (FME Law) and the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a FOIA request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking "copies of all emails: 1) sent or received by either Jon Wellinghoff, or Norman Bay of FERC’s Office of Enforcement, 2) which use in either the [...]

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19 06, 2014

The Daily Signal: Lawsuit Seeks EPA Administrator’s Deleted Messages

2014-06-23T09:02:28-04:00June 19th, 2014|EPA, FME Law, Horner, Media Coverage, NSA, Transparency|

by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal What have top officials within the Environmental Protection Agency been telling various environmental groups in their phone, email and text messages? That’s a question Chris Horner...can’t answer yet because the EPA claims it does not store this kind of data—in violation of the law. But it’s possible the National [...]

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17 06, 2014

The Hill: Conservatives turn to NSA for help getting White House records

2014-06-18T12:40:36-04:00June 17th, 2014|FME Law, Horner, Media Coverage, NSA, Transparency|

by Julian Hattem The Hill In a new twist to the surveillance debate, conservative groups are asking the National Security Agency for help obtaining phone and email records about the Obama administration. Republicans on Capitol Hill and right-leaning organizations have asked the National Security Agency to hand over email and phone records about the Internal [...]

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10 06, 2014

Daily Caller: Conservatives Sue NSA To Obtain Top EPA Officials’ Communications

2014-06-11T10:40:44-04:00June 10th, 2014|EPA Collusion, FME Law, Media Coverage, NSA, Transparency|

by Giuseppe Macri The Daily Caller Conservative and environmental organizations have grouped together to file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency for access to the communication records of top Environmental Protection Agency officials... Now the institute, along with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, allege the NSA [...]

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