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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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14 11, 2013

Washington Examiner: Think tanks tell court EPA using FOIA fees to hide public documents

2013-11-15T18:37:31-05:00November 14th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Michael Conger Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials are using reproduction fees to delay or avoid releasing documents under the Freedom of Information Act, two conservative think tanks said in a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy and Environment [...]

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10 09, 2013

ATI Files Suit to Compel the University of Arizona to Produce Records Related to So-Called “Hockey Stick” Global Warming Research

2016-12-11T17:08:17-05:00September 10th, 2013|E&E Legal v. UofA, Press Releases, Transparency, University of Arizona|

For Immediate Release – September 10, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org ATI Files Suit to Compel the University of Arizona to Produce Records Related to So-Called “Hockey Stick” Global Warming Research On Friday, September 6th, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), a non-profit public policy organization, along with counsel from the [...]

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10 09, 2013

EPA manipulates the FOIA to help Big Green

2013-09-28T17:02:05-04:00September 10th, 2013|EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Ron Arnold Washington Examiner There they go again. “The Environmental Protection Agency has been caught placing hurdles in the path of groups it views as hostile or inconvenient to its agenda,” veteran Freedom of Information Act hurdle-jumping attorney Chris Horner told me this week. Read more

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29 07, 2013

Citing Career Sources, Internal Screen Shots, ATI FOIA Requests Probe Re-Elect Factors Behind Fracking Reversal, Political Interference Driving EPA Agenda

2016-12-11T17:08:17-05:00July 29th, 2013|Press Releases, Transparency|

For Immediate Release – July 29, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org Citing Career Sources, Internal Screen Shots, ATI FOIA Requests Probe Re-Elect Factors Behind Fracking Reversal, Political Interference Driving EPA Agenda Washington, D.C. -- The American Traditional Institute (ATI), joined by the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FMELC), filed two [...]

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