by John Roberts Fox News Channel Newly disclosed emails suggest senior policy officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups are working closely to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, critics say. "These damning emails make it clear that the Obama administration has been actively trying to stop this important project for years," Sen. John [...]
by Jim Hoft Gateway Pundit The Keystone Pipeline project was expected to create tens of thousands of high paying jobs in the oil industry. The project itself would create 20,000 construction jobs. And the pipeline would bring oil from Canada and North Dakota to refineries in the United States. But it was just a big [...]
For Immediate Release: January 22, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. – Additional documents obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) further illuminate the cozy, even collusive working relationship between the EPA, Sierra Club, and other pressure groups for which the Sierra Club [...]
by Chris Horner Guest Essay, Watts Up With That? The curiously titled article, “Climate scientists, facing skeptics’ demands for personal emails, learn how to cope”, in today’s E&E News “ClimateWire”http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2014/01/21/stories/1059993161 (paywalled), is characteristic of a recent uptick in the campaign to discourage universities and courts from properly interpreting open records laws for all requesters — not [...]
Editorial Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The actions of the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency long have made its extremism clear. But speaking just as loudly about how fully the far left has co-opted the EPA are its own words — in newly revealed emails that show the agency collaborating extensively with radical environmentalists. The Energy and Environment [...]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will force a vote to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions from new coal-fired power plants, striking back against anti-coal activists. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said he and 40 fellow Republicans will attempt to block the EPA’s proposed rule using the Congressional Review Act [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
