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The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance has admirably pressed Commonwealth officials for details the regulators have been very dodgy in not providing to GAO, following up on questions raised in this report in the Commonwealth Beacon (that story broke what appears to be a pattern of non- or misfeasance by the Gov. Healey administration, and lack of enforcement of “climate” obligations against…

2009 Obama EPA appointees internally called the Endangerment Finding a “decision ready to go,” a “basic fact” and “nothing more than science and common sense”; discussion went straight to timing, suggesting predetermination and a sham notice-and-comment rule making process Executive Summary: GAO strongly encourages the Environmental Protection Agency to include in any rescission of the Obama Administration’s 2009 Endangerment Finding…

GAO sees this LinkedIn post, which appears to be a failed letter to the editor, waving lots of hands to muddle and distract from Massachusetts’s unfolding energy crisis and defend that crisis’s principal author, the current Governor, former Attorney General and all-the-while climate-policy activist Maura Healey. This jeremiad, ostensibly railing against points made in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by…

Read here. Comments on EPA’s Proposed Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards, 40 CFR Parts 85, 86, 600, 1036, 1037, and 1039 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194; FRL-12715-01-OAR] RIN 2060-AW71 Government Accountability & Oversight Contact: info@govoversight.org SUMMARY OF COMMENTS: COMMENT 1: U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably minimal, if any, direct impact on the global climate and any…

Comments on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Fast-track Review of the Evidence on Whether Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Reasonably Anticipated to Endanger Public Health and Welfare in the U.S., in Response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to rescind its 2009 Endangerment Finding. Submitted via NASEM website. NOTE: Due to NASEM’s restrictions on characters and attachments, full…

Comments on DoE’s Notice of Availability: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate, 2025-14519 (90 FR 36150); Docket No. DOE-HQ-2025-0207 Government Accountability & Oversight SUMMARY OF COMMENTS: COMMENT 1: This Review is essential because it introduces into the official government record some semblance of the balance which exists in the observational and publication records…

Committee letters somewhat understate things The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is looking into “Bloomberg Philanthropies for Partisan Activism with State Attorneys General,” starting with ‘Bloomberg Philanthropies’ and its project run out of New York University “embedding” activists in law enforcement offices to pursue the donor’s priorities. GAO notes that the Committee’s descriptions have been made with even…

Amid reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering the December 2009 “Endangerment Finding” regarding greenhouse gases,[1] a recanvassing of emails obtained in the infamous “Richard Windsor” Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought over a dozen years ago by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) against the Agency[2] leads to a troubling conclusion: the Obama EPA’s regulatory “finding” that greenhouse gases…

Government Accountability & Oversight seeks records related to donor-financed climate activists in state departments Government Accountability & Oversight, with representation from the Wisconsin Transparency Project, has filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Administration alleging that DOA violated the state’s Open Records Law. DOA—and specifically the Office of Sustainability & Clean Energy created by executive order to implement the…

Minutemen, the MA OAG are Not As GAO has previously noted, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General has engaged in a pattern and practice of stalling to avoid meeting its obligation of public transparency about its operations. Now, Energy Policy Advocates has filed an emergency motion arising out of this pattern and the bad faith involved in EPA v.…