by John Hayward Human Events I don’t wish to downplay the hard work of the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, but learning that the Environmental Protection Agency is essentially staffed and run by its own lobbyists is not surprising. It’s good to have it all documented in a concise report, entitled “Improper Collusion Between Environmental [...]
by John DiStaso New Hampshire Journal In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club environmental group “collaborated” in writing a press release for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on her participation in a “Clean Energy Solutions Roundtable” featuring Club and EPA officials, according to a new report by a conservative think-tank. The Energy and Environmental [...]
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside 'green' lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question Obama’s EPA in collusion with “green” lobby groups — Report details the conflicts of interest, “unalterably closed minds”, internal activism and influence of outside interest [...]
By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel Recent transparency efforts by The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) ran head first into the anti-transparency culture and institutional wagon circling that seems to pervade state funded institutions of higher education these days. The University of Illinois at [...]
By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On March 8th 2012 the Constellation Energy Group agreed to a settlement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).[1] The $245 million dollar settlement was a huge win for FERC’s Office of Enforcement, which had opened the investigation into Constellation in January 2008, only to see it languish for [...]
by Stephan Dinan Washington Times Two years ago, the New York attorney general’s office prepared a legal brief laying out a potential case for asking courts to make the U.S. cut greenhouse gas emissions based on international treaties, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Times. Legal analysts say it’s a tough sell, and the [...]
by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online The Obama administration is fond of claiming it is the “most transparent administration in history,” but that’s not the way it looks to people who have tried to gain access to records they are legally entitled to... The Internal Revenue Service’s handling of the Lois Lerner correspondence is [...]
by Chris Horner As Appearing in the Washington Examiner Text messages sent on a private telephone between Maureen McDonnell, wife of Bob McDonnell, and businessman Johnnie Williams are key evidence in the corruption trial of the formerVirginia governor, according to the Washington Post. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s aides also produced text messages in the “Bridgegate” investigation, again using private telephones. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
