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16 01, 2014

Wall Street Journal: McConnell Launches Pre-Emptive Strike on EPA

2016-12-11T17:08:16-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency, U.S. Congress|

by Alicia Mundy Wall Street Journal, Washington Wire Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky mounted a pre-emptive assault Thursday on the Environmental Protection Agency, attempting to block planned federal greenhouse gas emissions limits on new coal-fired power plants. Mr. McConnell –and 40 other Republican senators including fellow Kentuckian Rand Paul—filed a resolution of “disapproval” against the agency’s proposed [...]

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16 01, 2014

Cornyn: Emails Make It Clear EPA Has It Out For Domestic Energy Producers

2014-01-16T18:16:06-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Transparency, U.S. Congress|

Press release issued today from Senator John Cornyn's office: WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today issued the following statement after internal EPA emails requested under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the EPA has been collaborating with environmental organizations, helping these organizations gather signatures for petitions that support the EPA’s position, and giving these groups advance notice [...]

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16 01, 2014

Washington Free Beacon: McCarthy Dodges Environmentalist Coordination Questions

2014-01-16T18:11:20-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

BY: Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy dodged questions on Thursday about internal emails that appear to show top EPA officials using agency events to help environmentalist groups gather comments on agency rules. Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) grilled McCarthy on the issue at a Thursday hearing of the [...]

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16 01, 2014

E&E Greenwire: Emails between EPA, enviro group become talking point in GHG rule battle

2014-01-16T17:54:52-05:00January 16th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Jean Chemnick and Manuel Quiñones Greenwire Coal industry allies on and off Capitol Hill have seized on emails sent between a Sierra Club lobbyist and U.S. EPA staff that they say confirm their belief that the agency and environmental advocates colluded to write a new power plant rule that would end coal-fired electric generation [...]

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15 01, 2014

Washington Free Beacon: Emails Show Extensive Collaboration Between EPA, Environmentalist Orgs

2014-01-15T17:19:06-05:00January 15th, 2014|EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon Internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emails show extensive collaboration between top agency officials and leading environmentalist groups, including overt efforts to coordinate messaging and pressure the fossil fuel industry. The emails, obtained by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, could [...]

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15 01, 2014

Independence Institute: Emails Show EPA’s Denver “Listening Tour” Stop A Collaboration Between Agency, Environmentalist Orgs

2014-02-19T12:23:27-05:00January 15th, 2014|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Michael Sandoval Independence Institute Emails published this week by the Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markayillustrate a pattern of coordination and cooperation between the Environmental Protection Agency and external environmentalist groups, including the use of at least one agency event to “pressure” an Xcel Energy executive at the Denver stop of a 2013 “listening tour." Read [...]

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14 01, 2014

Washington Examiner: The ‘war on coal’ is about to heat up in 2014

2014-01-16T17:01:54-05:00January 14th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Ashe Schow Washington Examiner If you thought 2013 was a tough year for the coal industry, get ready for 2014, when the “war on coal” is set to really heat up. Recent articles suggest that the damaging Environmental Protection Agency rules for coal plants from last year were just a first step, and that the agency is [...]

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14 01, 2014

Plans by EPA and Sierra Club to cripple coal industry exposed by FOIA Documents Obtained as a Result of E&E Legal FOIA Request

2016-12-11T17:08:17-05:00January 14th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Press Releases, Transparency|

For Immediate Release: January 14, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. -- A 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), under its former name, the American Tradition Institute, has produced several hundred documents affirming the uncomfortably close working relationship between the current U.S. [...]

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13 01, 2014

Washington Examiner: Emails show green group’s influence on EPA coal rule

2014-01-14T09:44:34-05:00January 13th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Michal Conger Washington Examiner Emails between Environmental Protection Agency officials and the Sierra Club make clear the agency has been speaking with a forked tongue about an experimental coal emissions technology. Agency officials say the technology -- called "carbon capture and storage" -- is ready now for commercial applications to reduce carbon emissions from [...]

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10 01, 2014

Washington Free Beacon: Sierra Club Pressed EPA to Create Impossible Coal Standards

2014-01-13T14:42:52-05:00January 10th, 2014|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by CJ Ciaramella Washington Free Beacon Emails between the Sierra Club and the EPA produced through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show the green group and senior officials at the nation’s top environmental enforcer met and corresponded frequently about the agency’s work on new coal regulations. Read more.

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