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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Julian Hattem The Hill A group of conservative and environmental organizations is suing the National Security Agency (NSA) in order to obtain records about top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)... However, along with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, the conservative group claims that the [...]
For Immediate Release: June 9, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal and FME Law Sue NSA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records that EPA Destroyed but Spy Agency Grabbed; Records Relate to Administrator Gina McCarthy’s Destroyed Text Messages, Former Administrator Lisa Jackson’s Verizon Account She Used to Correspond with Lobbyists Washington, D.C. – Today, [...]
