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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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