EPA manipulates the FOIA to help Big Green

Ron Arnold, Washington Examiner, Sept. 6, 2013

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.

Ron Binz Doesn’t Seem to Like Most Power Producers

Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a Letter to the Editor signed by ATI’s Senior Fellows Chris Horner, and Amy Oliver Cooke, and Executive Director, Craig Richardson, along with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s William Yeatman. The letter was titled: “Ron Binz Doesn’t Seem to Like Most Power Producers: The President’s nominee to chair the FERC, Ron Binz, has shown himself hostile to coal, gas and nuclear electricity generation.” Click here to view the letter.

TANTON: Casualties of the war on coal

Tom Tanton, ATI’s Director of Science & Technology Assessment, Washington Times, August 1, 2013

A war on coal is underway, instigated by a few opposition groups with powerful voices. The World Bank’s announcement to oppose the financing of coal plants overseas is only the latest development in the ongoing debate… Unfortunately, coal opponents regularly overlook the bigger economic picture: Coal provides a reliable energy resource for developing countries that is essential for public health and economic development.

Obama admin may have interfered with fracking studies

Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, July 29, 2013

Two sources within the Environmental Protection Agency have told government watchdog groups that the Obama administration interfered with investigations of hydraulic fracturing during the 2012 presidential campaign.

Sunday Reflection: The collusion of the climate crowd

By Chris Horner, Washington Examiner, July 6, 2013

Not long ago, the American Tradition Institute initiated a transparency campaign using federal and state freedom of information laws to learn more about how taxpayer-funded academics use their positions to advance a particular agenda. On its face, this should have been welcomed by the Left, which often lays claim to the “transparency” mantle. It is instead causing great angst.

Chris Horner, master of FOIA, bedevils the White House

ERICA MARTINSON, Politico, June 28, 2013

After years of digging political dirt on the climate movement, Chris Horner has suddenly struck gold in stoking the GOP’s transparency crusade against the Environmental Protection Agency.