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Washington Examiner

Watchdog calls on Trump to fulfill Obama-era FOIA requests

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/07/2017

The Washington Examiner reports on CEI urging President Trump to release documents sought under the Freedom of Information Act, and discusses the issues with Chris…

Freedom of Information

Daily Signal

The California Gathering That Hatched Plan to Prosecute Skeptics of Climate Change

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/28/2016

The Daily Signal reports on CEI’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against George Mason University.  Chris Horner, a lawyer and senior fellow with the…

CEI Litigation

Washington Examiner

Dems’ climate pact ‘doomed from the start,’ group says

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/23/2016

Washington Examiner speaks with Chris Horner on emails regarding the subpoena CEI recieved for their work on climate change.  Soon after, U.S. Virgin…

Energy and Environment

Washington Free Beacon

NY Attorney General Accused of Skirting Public Records Law

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Sam Kazman
  • 08/31/2016

The Washington Free Beacon reports on CEI's lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Schneiderman from refusing to release documents related to the climate change investigations. …

Energy

Daily Signal

Secret Deal Among AGs to Prosecute Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Challenged in Court

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/08/2016

The Daily Signal discusses efforts of government officials to silence the debate on climate change with Chris Horner.   Horner, a lawyer and senior fellow at the…

Reuters

U.S. states signed pact to keep Exxon climate probe confidential

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/04/2016

Reuters speaks with Chris Horner on the pact of fifteen states signed to investigate Exxon Mobil but was written broadly to investigate other groups. …

Energy and Environment

Newsmax

GMU Profs Worked to Silence Climate Change Skeptics

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/02/2016

Newsmax discusses with Chris Horner the emails CEI uncovered through their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that reveal professors petitioning the government to prosecute global…

Freedom of Information

Fox News

Climate spin: Behind-the-scenes emails show profs evading questions

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/01/2016

Fox News reports on emails CEI found in their FOIA lawsuit against George Mason University professors that reveals their petition to the government to prosecute…

Freedom of Information

Washington Times

Climate spin doctor took charge after professors’ ‘mistake’ called for prosecuting skeptics

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/01/2016

The Washington Times reports on emails revealed through CEI's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and discusses their content with Chris Horner.  The latest…

Freedom of Information

Washington Times

Professors pushing RICO for climate skeptics have own problems with FOIA

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/15/2016

Washington Times reports on the emails CEI and Chris Horner uncovered through their Freedom of Information Act requests, which reveal George Mason University professors' communciations…

Energy and Environment

Washington Free Beacon

Environmentalist Group Warned Against Federal Charges for ‘Deniers’

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/13/2016

The Washington Free Beacon discusses CEI's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against RICO-20 letter signers and George Mason University and the emails Chris Horner recieved…

Energy and Environment

TheBlaze

‘Outrageous Violation of the First Amendment’: State AGs Take the Next Step in Going After Climate Change Skeptics

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Sam Kazman
  • 04/08/2016

TheBlaze reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence debate on climate change.  The Competitive Enterprise…

Free Speech

Breitbart

Attorney General Loretta Lynch Wants to Prosecute ‘Deniers’: Here’s Why She’ll Fail

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/11/2016

Breitbart discusses CEI's Freedom of Information Act case to obtain documents from a GMU professor and quotes Chris Horner on the case.  Unfortunately…

Freedom of Information

Washington Times

Clean Power Plan reset sought after emails show collaboration bewteen EPA, greens

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/22/2016

The Washington Times discusses emails obtained through CEI's FOIA request with Chris Horner.  The emails, obtained by E&E Legal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute…

Freedom of Information

Daily Caller

‘Captured’: EPA Let Green Lobbyists Write Its Global Warming Regs

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/22/2016

The Daily Caller discusses documents obtained through CEI's FOIA request with Chris Horner.  E&E Legal published the report in conjunction with filing briefs with…

Freedom of Information

Daily Caller

Fiji’s Approval Of The UN Treaty Undermines Obama’s Global Warming Agenda

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/19/2016

The Daily Caller discusses Obama's claim that the Paris deal is not a treaty with CEI's Chris Horner.  “His argument is that he…

Energy and Environment

Washington Free Beacon

Emails: EPA Rushed to Resolve Tesla’s ‘Million Dollar’ Bureaucratic Snafu

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/10/2016

The Washington Free Beacon reports on emails obtained by CEI through their FOIA request, and speak with Chris Horner for more details. The…

Freedom of Information

Heartland Institute

Trump Vows to Cut EPA If Elected President

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/02/2016

The Heartland Institute cites Chris Horner on the need to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency's powers.  Christopher Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…

Energy and Environment

Washington Free Beacon

Group Defending Power Plant Rule Secretly Talked With EPA, Emails Show

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/15/2016

The Washington Free Beacon reports on emails discussing a enviornmental consulting firms secret work for the EPA, which Chris Horner obtained through a request under the Freedom…

Freedom of Information

Heartland Institute

House Investigates Calls for Prosecutions of Climate Skeptics

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/15/2015

The Heartland Institute discusses with Chris Horner, the investigation of the Institute for Global Enviornment and Society which recieved taxpayer funds to conduct partisan activity.

Energy and Environment

WND

‘Climate criminal’ blows whistle: ‘It’s just about the money!’

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/12/2015

WND discusses with Chris Horner the agreement written at the UN Climate Summit in Paris. “They’re talking 70-95 percent reductions in this document,” Horner…

Energy and Environment

WND

How climate deal could actually kill people

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/09/2015

WND discusses with Chris Horner's how the climate deal, which causes energy prices to rise, will mean many will die from the cold this winter.  Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Activists Try To Silence Global Warming ‘Skeptics’ At UN Summit

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/07/2015

The Daily Caller reports on the wanted posters that feature climate sceptics, including CEI's Chris Horner, which are posted on the streets of Paris. These signs are created for…

Energy and Environment

Huffington Post

Paris Plastered with Wanted Posters for ‘Climate Criminals’

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Myron Ebell
  • 12/07/2015

Huffington Post discusses the wanted posters of climate skeptics at the UN Climate Conference, which target CEI's Myron Ebell and Chris Horner.  The article quotes Myron's response to…

Energy and Environment

Washington Times

How to halt the president’s climate change ploy

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/18/2015

Chris Horner writes on the upcoming Paris Climate Treaty for the Washington Times. President Obama will soon agree to a global warming treaty…

Energy and Environment

CNS News

US Senate Votes to Block EPA’s Clean Power Plan

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/18/2015

CNS News references Chris Horner on Congress' role in the Clean Power Plan and Paris climate talks. The Senate’s rebuke of the EPA’s…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Hillary Clinton signed non-disclosure agreement to protect classified info while secretary of state

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/07/2015

Fox News reports on the NDA document signed by Hillary Clinton which CEI obtained through their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The NDA…

CEI Litigation

Newsmax

CEI’s Chris Horner: Hillary Signed Documents That Refute Claims on Classified Data

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/07/2015

Newsmax speaks with Chris Horner regarding the two nondisclosure forms signed by Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. "This just makes…

CEI Litigation

Washington Free Beacon

Clinton Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/06/2015

The Washington Free Beacon discusses the NDA document signed by Hillary Clinton which was obtained by CEI's Chris Horner. A day after assuming…

CEI Litigation

Citation

VIDEO: Christopher Horner on Fox Business’ Risk and Reward

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/03/2015

CEI’s Christopher Horner appeared on Fox Business Risk and Reward with Deirdre Bolton.

Energy and Environment

Heartland Institute

World Leaders Warn of Possible Climate Agreement Failure

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/05/2015

Heartland Institute cites CEI's expert Chris Horner on the Paris Treaty. Attorney Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says…

Climate

WND

Another White House Email Scandal Erupts

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Hans Bader, Sam Kazman
  • 08/16/2015

WND reports on CEI's Freedom of Information Act request, quoting Sam Kazman on the issue.  John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science…

Freedom of Information

Daily Caller

EPA Will Take 100 Years To Fulfill Conservative Group’s FOIA Request

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/12/2015

Senior Fellow Christopher Horner discusses CEI's latest lawsuit against the EPA's FOIA stonewall with the Daily Caller: “We have shown this administration…

New Republic

Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal Is About to Cause Headaches for the EPA

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/12/2015

Senior Fellow Christopher Horner discusses CEI's latest lawsuit against the EPA's FOIA stonewall with the New Republic: On Wednesday, the Competitive Enterprise…

Washington Times

Hillary Clinton Could Face Jail Time as Email Scandal Sparks Legal Challenges

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/11/2015

Christopher Horner discusses Hilary Clinton's private email account with the Washington Times: The moves have raised a number of questions about her…

Washington Examiner

Critics Push Back at Hillary Clinton’s Email Tweet

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/05/2015

The Washington Examiner talks to CEI's Christopher Horner about the current administration's string of email scandals: Chris Horner, a CEI senior fellow who…

Washington Examiner

Transparency Advocates Condemn Clinton’s Secretive Private Email Account

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/03/2015

The Washington Examiner talks to CEI's Christopher Horner about the current administration's string of email scandals: Clinton is also not unique among President…

The Blaze

China Recoils on Transparency at Climate Conference, but Obama Administration Still Confident in Deal

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/11/2014

CEI's Cristopher Horner weighs in on the Lima, Peru climate summit at The Blaze: Asserting the bilateral agreement is entirely separate from…

Energy and Environment

Breitbart

President Obama Goes Around Senate on Climate Change

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/14/2014

Breitbart cited Christopher Horner's statement on President Obama's promise with China to cut emissions. Obama knows that two-thirds of the Senate under the U.S.

Energy and Environment

Human Events

Obama’s Economic Surrender to China

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/13/2014

Human Events quotes CEI's Cristopher Horner on President Obama's environmental treaty with China at APEC:  "Of course, since we’ve long trespassed against the boundaries…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Pulling ‘an IRS’? EPA Reportedly Loses Text Messages Now Sought in Request

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/09/2014

The EPA is being accused of pulling “an IRS” for reportedly planning to inform the National Archives it has lost text messages being sought in…

Energy and Environment

National Review

The EPA Chief’s Text Messages Go Missing

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/09/2014

But Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of The Liberal War on Transparency, who is suing over the…

Energy and Environment

National Review

Obama’s Idea of Transparency

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/07/2014

Chris Horner is mentioned in a National Review article about the Obama administration’s lack of transparency: The Internal Revenue Service’s handling of the Lois Lerner…

Business and Government

Town Hall

Lois Lerner’s Illegal Instant Message Trick

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 07/17/2014

I asked the leading force for government transparency in the country, Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, whether it was legal for the IRS…

Energy and Environment

The Hill

Conservatives Turn to NSA for Help Getting White House Records

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/16/2014

In a new twist to the surveillance debate, conservative groups are asking the National Security Agency for help obtaining phone and email records about the…

CEI Litigation

The Washington Times

Watchdog rebuffed on EPA data turns to NSA

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/09/2014

A pro-business watchdog group sued the National Security Agency on Monday, demanding that the spy agency turn over metadata logs for some phones registered to…

CEI Litigation

Newsmax

Climate Change Remains Unsettled, Say 31,072 Scientists

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/20/2014

 One more fallacy that the climate-change movement doesn't like to remember is the infamous "hockey stick" predictor, said Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at…

Climate

Greeley Tribune

EPA boss’ emails show a coordinated state, federal effort to skirt transparency

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/08/2014

Coloradans should be concerned that state officials have sought to hide important environmental policy conversations from them. Through a 2013 federal Freedom of Information Act…

National Review

The EPA’s Anti-Transparency Antics

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/28/2014

The Environmental Protection Agency’s anti-transparency shenanigans are as entertainingly bizarre as they are pathetic. The agency has been stonewalling Chris Horner, a senior fellow at…

Newsmax

Farmers Say EPA Data Dumps to Green Groups Endanger Their Privacy

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/21/2014

Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), said the EPA's actions are akin to the IRS targeting of conservative groups. "We…

Washington Times

EPA’s Use of Secret Email Addresses Was Widespread: Report

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/13/2014

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who helped expose the email scandal, said the inspector general’s investigation was flawed because auditors…

Washington Times

EPA’s Use of Secret Email Addresses Was Widespread: Report

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/13/2014

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who helped expose the email scandal, said the inspector general’s investigation was flawed because auditors…

Tri Valley Central

EPA urged to update rules on secret email accounts

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/01/2013

Chris Horner, the senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute credited with uncovering the Windsor email account, said it was a mistake for the inspector…

Energy

Washington Examiner

Examiner Editorial: Lengthy Senate report details EPA FOIA abuses

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/12/2013

Jackson resigned from EPA in December 2012 after it became known the agency's inspector general had opened an investigation. Jackson has…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Obama’s EPA Has a Culture of Secrecy and Evasion

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/09/2013

Jackson’s alias account was discovered by Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner, who learned of the existence of the alias email while…

Energy and Environment

Heartlander

Lisa Jackson Hires Lawyer for Email Concealment Fiasco

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/30/2013

The agency and its previous head have still breathed easy despite months of inquiries andFreedom of Information Act requests from Chris Horner of the Competitive…

Energy and Environment

Washington Times

Investigators ask former EPA chief to turn over private emails

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/15/2013

While Ms. Jackson was chief of the agency, employees were repeatedly reminded about the rules for private email use, the lawmakers said.

Energy and Environment

Daily Mail

‘MILLIONS WILL DIE’ without a carbon tax to fix global warming, says a New Jersey U.S. Senate candidate in hysterical online campaign ad

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 07/25/2013

Chris Horner, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told MailOnline that 'you could kill millions trying' to implement a carbon tax. 'Possibly…

Climate

Daily Caller

‘Ideological mercenary’: World Bank follows in Obama’s footsteps on coal

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 07/18/2013

“One might say this signals the war on coal has gone global,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Energy

Daily Caller

White House knew about Lisa Jackson’s secret email account

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/09/2013

“I’m unclear how grown men and women could think that it’s acceptable to have a nonexistent employee sign in as the test-taker [or to have…

Energy and Environment

Trib Live

‘Transparency’ through obstruction

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/09/2013

But it wasn't the AP that originally uncovered Team Obama's penchant for email sock-puppetry. Chris Horner, Competitive Enterprise Institute fellow and author of “The Liberal…

Energy and Environment

Washington Post

Ex-EPA chief allegedly used alias e-mail for certification tests on ethics, cybersecurity

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/04/2013

Jackson, who left the agency earlier this year, used an e-mail account associated with the pseudonym Richard Windsor to take online training programs on subjects…

Energy and Environment

Politico

BRB, LOL FOIA

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/04/2013

The Competitive Enterprise Institute isn’t happy with the answer it got from EPA to a Freedom of Information Act request for air chief Gina McCarthy’s…

Energy and Environment

Washington Post

One Ethical Sock Puppet

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/04/2013

CEI senior fellow Christopher Horner said that use of an alias account for work activities was troubling. “The best one can say is that if…

Energy and Environment

Citation

VIDEO: EPA Playing Favorites with Fee Waivers

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/04/2013

Competitive Enterprise Institute and Senior Fellow Christopher Horner featured on Fox News’ Special Report. [VIDEO::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ls7i9_XE6o::aVideoStyle]…

Energy and Environment

Free Beacon

Richard Windsor, Model Employee

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/03/2013

Jackson set up a secret email address under the pseudonym “Richard Windsor.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner first discovered it in November. Republicans and…

Energy and Environment

Boston Herald

EPA out of control

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/26/2013

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative advocacy group, has sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking an explanation of why it has been denied waivers of…

Energy and Environment

Newsmax

EPA Waives Fees for Some Groups, But Not Conservatives

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/16/2013

The Environmental Protection Agency waives its fees for big "green" groups 92 percent of the time while it waives fees for major conservative groups only…

Energy and Environment

Human Events

Now Boarding the Obama Administration Scandal Train: the EPA

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/14/2013

CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several…

Energy and Environment

The Business Journals

Conservative group accuses EPA of playing favorites on FOIA fees

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/14/2013

That’s according to an analysis of a year’s worth of FOIA requests by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based public policy group…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

EPA chief used alias to email with environmentalists

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/01/2013

“So, an email account created in the name of a fictitious employee was indeed affirmatively used to present that false identity,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior…

Energy and Environment

Daily Mail

Phony email account used by recently-resigned EPA administrator was NOT standard practice and broke federal law, researcher responds to Sen. Barbara Boxer

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/11/2013

But Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) senior fellow Chris Horner told MailOnline that Jackson, who resigned in December, broke with tradition and created an entirely new…

Energy and Environment

Capital Press

Group Sues EPA Over Instant Messages

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Hans Bader
  • 04/09/2013

A new lawsuit accuses U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials of using instant messaging to avoid revealing their communications to the public. The plaintiff, the Competitive…

Energy and Environment

American Thinker

Busting the EPA’s secret government

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/02/2013

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…

Energy and Environment

Politico

Morning Energy

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/13/2013

WINDSOR NOT: EPA’s running behind on its next batch of emails from former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” email account and won’t be ready…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Congressmen demand investigation of EPA selectively blocking FOIAs

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/07/2013

The documents in question that sparked today's letter to Holder were requested by Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Think tank says EPA helps friends’ FOIAs, while foes’ are delayed or blocked

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/04/2013

In the 21-page request, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner said "the public particularly deserves to know whether EPA is singling…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

WINDSORGATE UPDATE: Another EPA official found using private email

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/27/2013

Jackson announced her resignation last December after it was revealed in September 2012 by Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Christopher Horner in his book "The…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Senators: EPA needs more transparency

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/26/2013

This information was first learned by Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner, who is the man behind the lawsuit that has forced the EPA…

Energy and Environment

Breitbart

EPA Doc Dump: Heavily Redacted Emails of Former Chief Released

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/22/2013

The denial follows allegations from Washington D.C. attorney Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who initially found the alternative e-mail address…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

EPA denies claim that former director Jackson used NJ email account

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/21/2013

The New Jersey account turned up amid thousands of pages of emails released by the administration late last week. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at…

Energy and Environment

The Blaze

More Secret Email Accounts for Obama’s EPA Chief?

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/21/2013

Chris Horner, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says recently released documents show that, in at least one case, Jackson used an old…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Another top EPA official caught using private email account

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/19/2013

“The sad fact is I was not all that surprised to find that address,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner told TheDC News Foundation.

Energy and Environment

Free Beacon

Whole Lotta Redactin’ Going On

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/19/2013

The emails, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), are from Jackson’s pseudonymous, secondary email…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Non-profit Freedom Of Information Act requestor claims EPA abusing fee waivers

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/10/2013

Officials with the Competitive Enterprise Institute are appealing an Environmental Protection Agency decision to "arbitrarily and capricously" deny two fee waiver requests submitted by…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Treasury demands non-profit pay previously waived FOIA fees for carbon tax emails

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/04/2013

The Treasury Department filing was the latest development in a case that began last November when CEI appealed to the federal court to reverse Treasury's…

Energy

Fox News

EPA Email Scandal Worse Than First Thought

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/28/2013

We’re not talking about some alias to be used for personal correspondence but a totally false identity in whose name official business was allegedly conducted…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

House Republicans try again for EPA ‘Richard Windsor’ email records

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/25/2013

“The common thread running through EPA’s behavior to date regarding the false-identity account we discovered is that the Agency has no intention of coming clean,…

Energy and Environment

National Review

Lisa Jackson’s Gadfly

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/18/2013

Chris Horner is the gadfly determined to force the Obama administration to live up to its professed commitment to transparency. Having exposed outgoing EPA administrator…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Issa demands EPA reveal all secret email accounts

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/17/2013

Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which filed the lawsuit that led to the release of the Richard Windsor emails, criticized the EPA…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

New mysteries in EPA’s Windsorgate scandal

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/15/2013

Because EPA released thousands of emails that failed to satisfy the court's order, Horner said, "this response is deeply troubling and seems to have gravely…

Energy and Environment

CNS News

Released EPA Administrator’s Non-Public Emails Called ‘Deeply Troubling’

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/15/2013

Chris Horner of the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute says he discovered Jackson's "false identity" while doing research for his book, "The Liberal War on Transparency.”…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

EPA releases more than 2,100 emails from agency chief Lisa Jackson’s ‘alias’ account

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/15/2013

The Environmental Protection Agency released the first round of emails as in response to a lawsuit filed by a conservative group concerned that Environmental Protection…

Energy and Environment

Politico

First ‘Richard Windsor’ emails duds

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/15/2013

DOCUMENT DUMP: EPA on Monday released the first batch of emails from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” alias email account, in response to a…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

EPA’s release of documents related to email aliases criticized as ‘deeply troubling’

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/15/2013

The Environmental Protection Agency released roughly 4,000 pages of documents Monday in response to a request for information about possible secret emails by former Administrator…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Glitches mar EPA release of first batch of ‘Windsorgate’ emails

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/14/2013

Meanwhile, a few discs of the emails were obtained by parties to the litigation that resulted in the court order for the documents' release,…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

20 Windsorgate questions for Obama administration

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/10/2013

Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice are expected to make public Monday the first batch of 3,000 of 12,000 "Richard Windsor" emails sought by…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Watchdog: Transparency advocates see tough year, growing ‘Windsorgate’ scandal at EPA ahead

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/02/2013

According to Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), there is substantial evidence that Jackson was not the only EPA official…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Attorney claims EPA chief resigned over alias email accounts

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/27/2012

Jackson, in a brief written statement, said Thursday she is leaving the EPA after four years on the job, for "new challenges, time with my…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

‘Richard Windsor’ departure from EPA is a victory for transparency

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/27/2012

Then, in the course of litigation initiated a few months ago by Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Horner, an internal memo from the…

Energy and Environment

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