FOIA

GAO Briefs Virginia Court on Desperate Move by Attorney General Herring to Avoid FOIA Disclosure

By Chris Horner Yesterday, Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., with local counsel Graven Craig, responded to a risible effort (see PDF document here) recently filed by Virginia’s Attorney General Mark Herring, styled as a “Plea of Nulla Bona”, in a public records suit in the Circuit Court for Richmond (Virginia). That “artful pleading” came in a state Freedom of Information…

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Ten Questions for ‘Climate Industry Entrepreneur of the Year’, Gov. Jay Inslee

As Washington Gov. Jay Inslee comes to Capitol Hill Tuesday to teach us “lessons from across the nation: state and local action to combat climate change”, public records — including some released here for the first time — offer the public a few eye-opening lessons about what Gov. Jay Inslee has been up to. Ten Questions for Climate Industry Entrepreneur…

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FOIA Suit for Attorney General Herring Records Green-Lighted Efforts to Block Trial Denied

(Washington, DC) — The public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO), had a victory on Monday in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond (VA) in its effort to obtain what legal analysis could possibly lead Attorney General Mark Herring’s Office to declare to a group funded by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg that the AG…

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IER vs US Department of State Complaint 18 – 1802

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production under one FOIA request for certain described agency records, to which request defendant has provided no response whatsoever and therefore has denied. These records are of great public interest and would further illuminate State Department assistance with an effort by a lobbyist…

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IER vs. Treasury Complaint 18 – 1677

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production under one request for certain described correspondence dated during specified periods in 2017 and 2018, to or from one Treasury official, which use specific, provided terms such as “Bloomberg task force”, “G20”, and “climate risk disclosure”.   Case: IER V TREASURY Complaint as…

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GAO vs HHS Complaint 18 -1739

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production of records in response to two FOIA requests to a component of HHS, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) and specifically NIH’s National Institute for Environmental Health Studies (“NIEHS”). HHS has improperly denied the requests by failing to provide an initial determination,…

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GAO vs EPA Complaint 18-1742

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production of records in response to two FOIA requests to EPA. EPA has improperly denied the requests by failing to provide an initial determination, produce responsive records or otherwise perform in accordance with its obligations under FOIA, as applied by this Court in…

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