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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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9 06, 2014

The Hill: NSA sued for EPA records

2014-06-10T08:47:42-04:00June 9th, 2014|Media Coverage, NSA, Petition Litigation, Transparency|

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 [...]

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9 06, 2014

Press Release: E&E Legal and FME Law Sue NSA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records that EPA Destroyed but Spy Agency Grabbed

2016-12-11T17:07:58-05:00June 9th, 2014|EPA, EPA Collusion, FME Law, Horner, NSA, Press Releases, Schnare, Transparency|

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, [...]

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3 04, 2014

Drew Johnson: The EPA’s Inappropriate Alliance with Radical Environmental Groups Must Stop

2014-04-03T16:24:38-04:00April 3rd, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Transparency|

by Drew Johnson Senior Fellow, Taxpayers Protection Alliance As appearing in the Rockland County Times While running for reelection in 2012, President Obama repeatedly claimed that he would pursue an “all of the above” energy policy. But after winning a second term, his administration seems to have decided that “all of the above” doesn’t include [...]

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2 04, 2014

FoxNews.com: EPA accused of stonewalling records requests from conservative groups

2025-12-09T12:25:02-05:00April 2nd, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Petition Litigation, Selenium, Transparency|

  A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, accusing the agency of stonewalling records requests and engaging in political bias when granting fee waivers for documents. The Washington, D.C.-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed the suit in U.S. District Court in an attempt to force the EPA to [...]

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