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Possibly the media could see the story better if it was not sitting so close? The following is a refresher on the use of open records laws to see how officials at state universities use their positions. This practice, although expressly provided for under various state statutes, was pioneered in some respects by “climate” activists. Then others flattered the greens with…

Following up on this post, and this, and seeing that “EPA Sends GHG Endangerment Finding and Vehicle Rule to OMB,” GAO notes the following—consisting of three pages of typed timeline followed by relevant images of correspondence, including from a 5% randomly sampled Vaughn index (privilege log) in the CEI “Richard Windsor” FOIA case. These threads-to-pull serve as a reminder that…

In pursuit of the shocking yet not surprising revelations of which GAO readers are aware (see here, here, here), GAO has filed comments on the EPA’S proposed repeal of greenhouse gas emission standards for fossil-fuel fired electricity generation. In short, Boom. You should read them, here.

Following up on this post, GAO sees several purported common interest agreements among progressive attorneys general for possible, hypothetical, and numerous “anticipated” actions, writ very broadly (translated: The Resistance). Let’s just say that that’s not how any of this works.  

The Washington Free Beacon has covered findings first revealed by GAO which are well-summarized in the links here.

Following up on this post, Just the News has this story further airing the Trump administration’s at-hand tool to have the ‘Clean Power Plan 2.0’ vacated, and work to date wiped out. Go to the D.C. Circuit. Confess the error. Take the Bloody Shot. Don’t stop there.

This document came from NY OAG in a first partial production of purported common interest agreements, in response to a FOIL request prompted by this Politico story about the Resistance AGs. Yes, *that* WEACT. Given all of the revelations that the “Climate Superfund” predecessor plan, “nuisance” (then “failure to warn”) litigation, is really about obtaining a “sustainable funding stream,” and…

May 12, 2025 Office of Management and Budget Washington, DC Response to Notice of Request for Information, April 11, 2025 By Regulations.gov Portal In response to OMB’s solicitation of ideas for deregulation, specifically rules to be rescinded and detailed reasons for their rescission, Government Accountability & Oversight submits the following: I.                  Rules for rescission: New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse…

GAO filed eight FOIA lawsuits against DoE  in the second half of 2024 for a buried LNG study—work that had already in fact been performed in 2023 but with an unwanted answer, prompting the Department to falsely announce in January 2024 that it would “begin,” and “initiate” such work, as a pretext for a green-group-demanded ‘pause’ on further exports. These…

GAO is trying to figure this one out:  

GAO has uncovered certain facts which the Trump administration absolutely must consider and exploit as it pursues its announced regulatory corrections. This information sheds light on the previous administration’s process for adopting an unlawful “suite of regulations” imposing the “climate” agenda without any statutory authorization. Turns out, that plan was more unlawful than even we knew. In fact, this information…

It has been a busy time on the taxpayer-funded, green-group grant front. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency filed an appeal in the D.C. Circuit of a district court order that it unfreeze some of the billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to activists, financing the industry that was engaged with the Biden administration to advance an aligned agenda. This is very…

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…

Some news out of the Badger State. From Wisconsin Public Radio: The complaint, echoing the gun rights and right-to-life counterfactuals familiar to GAO readers, can be found here.

This item is cross-posted from ClimateLitigtionWatch.org Following up on, e.g., this post, Government Accountability & Oversight has filed suit against the Maine Office of the Attorney General over Maine’s categorical denial of requests for records of obvious public interest, of the same and similar kind of those which have been routinely released by other states (either voluntarily or when forced…

Today’s update follows up on this and all prior posts about the Biden Department of Energy’s scandal over “pausing” liquified natural gas exports to non-FTA countries, at the behest of its environmentalist pressure group base—the lies involved in which are becoming increasingly outrageous as time passes. GAO has obtained this production of eleven records totaling 38 pages (including duplicates, essentially…

In GAO v DoE, the FOIA lawsuit which exposed the LNG “Scandal-pause,” Government Accountability & Oversight points out for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that the Biden Department of Energy couldn’t keep its stories straight. From the introduction to GAO’s Memorandum in Opposition: Other documents filed yesterday are also available; do not be daunted by the…

Following up on this post, GAO wondered whether the Bloomberg Family Foundation was also financing the Climate Superfund gambit. Records do show that the Foundation pours enormous sums into groups that are involved at some level with this latest stab at imposing punitive energy taxes. What most struck GAO, however, was just how furiously Bloomberg’s group charged back into the…

If you have followed the LNG “pause” scandal outed by GAO Freedom of Information Act litigation, chronicled here, you know that the Biden-Harris DoE conducted a 2023 LNG export study then buried it, then effectively lied about this with a January 2024 announcement that LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries were being paused in order to…conduct such a study. More specifically,…

GAO has filed suit against the Biden-Harris DoE for the documents DoE identified as meeting the description of the 2023 LNG export study that, we are reliably informed, was performed, buried, then effectively lied about with the 2024 “pause-to-study” announcement. Which docs DoE then said, on second thought, weren’t “final reports” or “ready for release for the public’s view”, and…