by Michel Conger Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials bullied a contractor into cutting ties with an air policy coalition designed to help states with cumbersome EPA clean air rules, the American Tradition Institute said Thursday. ATI filed a Freedom of Information Act request for EPA emails, instant messages and text messages related to the [...]
For Immediate Release – April 25, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org ATI Files FOIA Request with EPA; Request Seeks Discussions Of Alleged Shakedown Of Private Contractor To Stop Working For Disfavored Group, Or Lose Government Business Washington – Today, the American Tradition Institute (ATI) filed a Freedom of Information request with the [...]
Washington – Yesterday, the American Tradition Institute (ATI) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) withdrew their lawsuit without prejudice that they jointly filed against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel the Agency to respond to the groups' requests for certain Instant Messages (IMs) to or from three senior current and former EPA officials. [...]
For Immediate Release – April 9, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org ATI, CEI FOIA Suit for EPA’s Instant Messages Leads EPA Head to Acknowledge Poor Record Keeping, Begs Question of Extent of Legal Violations WASHINGTON - Stung by widespread publicity resulting from recent American Tradition Institute (ATI) and Competitive Enterprise [...]
by Michal Conger Washington Examiner Acting Administrator Robert Persiacepe circulated an agency-wide warning to Environmental Protection Agency employees yesterday about complying with the federal Freedom of Information Act. Persiacepe’s memo was issued as EPA faces a growing controversy in the news media and federal courts sparked by revelations earlier this year that his predecessor used [...]
by Michal Conger Washington Examiner Allies of the Environmental Protection Agency get preferential treatment while watchdog agencies are stonewalled and charged unlawful fees for information, according to a lawsuit filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute Thursday morning in U.S. District Court in Washington. Read more
by Michael Conger Washington Examiner Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for instant- message records for several top officials, including former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” account and Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to succeed Jackson. The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute have sued for IM chats from [...]
by Ben Geman The Hill Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to compel disclosure of instant-message chats involving former Administrator Lisa Jackson, Gina McCarthy, the senior regulator nominated by President Obama to lead the EPA, and others. The new lawsuit, filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute, alleges that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
