Transparency

2 04, 2013

Busting the EPA’s secret government

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 2nd, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Thomas Lifson American Thinker Something is rotten in the EPA, and Christopher Horner is the man exposing it. For reasons undisclosed, the agency with vast discretionary power over the minutiae of operating a business in the United States has chosen to violate the law and engage in undisclosed secret communications, in utter violation of [...]

1 04, 2013

Lawsuit against EPA seeks evidence of hidden messages

2013-10-11T16:26:47-04:00April 1st, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Stephan Dinan Washington Times Top Environmental Protection Agency officials used computer instant messages to try to circumvent open-records laws, according to a lawsuit filed by a researcher who has been hounding the agency to comply with the law. Christopher C. Horner, the researcher who earlier uncovered that EPA officials were using private email addresses [...]

1 04, 2013

ATI , CEI Sue EPA for Instant Messaging Records: Potential Landmark Case Seeks Discussions on Agency’s War on Coal, Role of Pressure Groups from Little Known Accounts that Have Escaped

2013-10-11T10:45:05-04:00April 1st, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Press Releases, Transparency|

WASHINGTON - In what could be a landmark case, two free market groups the American Tradition Institute's Environmental Law Center and the Competitive Enterprise Institute have filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the Environmental Protection Agency seeking communications among senior EPA officials using instant messaging or IM technology. In the joint lawsuit [...]

17 02, 2013

EPA’s Secret And Costly ‘Sue And Settle’ Collusion With Environmental Organizations

2013-09-28T20:17:36-04:00February 17th, 2013|EPA, Horner, Sue & Settle, Transparency|

by Larry Bell Forbes “Sue and Settle “ practices, sometimes referred to as “friendly lawsuits”, are cozy deals through which far-left radical environmental groups file lawsuits against federal agencies wherein  court-ordered “consent decrees” are issued based upon a prearranged settlement agreement they collaboratively craft together in advance behind closed doors. Then, rather than allowing the [...]

28 01, 2013

ATI Environmental Law Center Sues EPA to Compel Response to FOIA Request

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00January 28th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Petition Litigation, Press Releases, Transparency|

PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C. Contact: Chris Horner January 28, 2013 info@atinstitute.org Today, the Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of the American Tradition Institute (ATI) in federal district court in Washington, DC. ATI seeks to compel EPA to end its eight-month stonewall of two requests under the [...]

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