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Environmental Activists Pushed Chinese-Friendly Policies with Obama Administration

State Department email records show that environmental activists who have denied operating as foreign agents in response to congressional inquiries partnered with Obama administration officials to advance climate change policies that were beneficial to China and detrimental to the United States, according to energy policy analysts and attorneys who have reviewed the electronic correspondence. The World Resources Institute, a Washington…

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IER Sues Treasury Department for Public Records of Immediate Public Interest

WASHINGTON – Today the Institute for Energy Research filed an open records lawsuit against the Department of the Treasury relating to continuing efforts in Washington to quietly advance the “climate” industry. This Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks certain, specific records relating to the “climate risk disclosure” campaign begun…

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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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