CEI Files Lawsuit against Office of Science and Technology Policy The Competitive Enterprise Institute has sued the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to produce the work-related emails…
Category: FOI
The IPCC And Proprietary Rights – Does The Law Trump Justice?
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. French proverb Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Attempts to get critical information from agents of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…
Using Intellectual Property agreements to defeat public disclosure
Phil Jones’ plan to hide from FOIA Eric Worrall writes: Anyone shocked by Mann’s broad claims of academic exemption from freedom of information, due to the “proprietary nature” of his…
Decision in the Mann/UVa case, a blow to open science
Supreme Court of VA sides with University, secrecy, and Mann. The previously claimed destruction of Mann emails now to begin. In this appeal, we consider whether the Circuit Court of…
Decision expected tomorrow in Mann UVa FOIA case
At the blog “Open Virginia Law” they are discussing the Mann case and potential impacts, as a new session results will be published from the Supreme Court of Virginia, and…
CEI Sues EPA Over Stonewalling Records Request
WASHINGTON, April 9 – Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to compel the agency to produce text messages sent by government officials,…
A stunning revelation from a UWA Vice Chancellor Paul Johnson over access to Lewandowsky's poll data
This post will be a top sticky post for a day, new stories will appear below this one. While this issue was covered previously on Climate Audit, I thought this…
Wow, even MSM reporters want to see Michael Mann's UVa emails now
Here’s something out of left field (literally) and almost too good to be true, but it really is. Get this: 17 news organizations, including NPR, WaPo, AP, now have grown…
Nothing to See Here! Shredding Parties and Hiding the Decline in Taxpayer-Funded Science
The Cyber-Bonfire is Big and Bright, Deep in the Heart of Texas By: Chris Horner In the early 2000’s, the public was introduced to Enron “Shredding Parties,” where documents were…
The FOIA coping response in climate scientists
Guest essay by Chris Horner The curiously titled article, “Climate scientists, facing skeptics’ demands for personal emails, learn how to cope”, in today’s E&E News “ClimateWire” http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2014/01/21/stories/1059993161 (paywalled), is characteristic…
New FOIA emails show EPA in cahoots with enviro groups, giving them special access
From The Washington Free Beacon, Lachlan Markay. Press release follows. Internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emails show extensive collaboration between top agency officials and leading environmentalist groups, including overt efforts…
CEI wins FOIA tiff with NASA via judicial order
From AllGov.com with lots of spin (h/t to reader Dennis) Judge Orders NASA to Release Climate Change-Related Documents A climate change denial group once funded by oil giant ExxonMobil (2012…
Mann's emails to be subject of state supreme court case
You have to wonder what he’s got in those emails to be fighting so hard to keep people from seeing the supposedly mundane details of research. Prince William FOIA case…
FOIA obtained Met Office document shows them to be clueless about what affects our climate, and, in particular, what caused the unusual weather last year
Maybe all they need is a bigger computer Guest post by by Paul Homewood Following the wet summer in the UK last year, the Met Office provided the Environment Agency…
Irony Hypocrisy on steroids–UVa plugs new “Open Science Center” while simultaneously keeping Michael Mann’s science notes away from the public
Readers may recall that UVa has spent north of a half million dollars to fight Freedom of Information requests surrounding Dr. Mann and his infamous hockey stick science. – Anthony…
'Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.'
That headline is from this article in The Atlantic. Below is from Globalwarming.org What EPA Transparency Looks Like in Most Open, Honest Administration Ever This time, we got actual emails…
ATI's FOI request to the University of Arizona 'excessively burdensome'
Chris Horner writes in with this news, I had to chuckle at some of the language UofA used in the reply, seen below, as if Malcolm Hughes and Jonathan Overpeck…
Vitter, Issa Investigate EPA’s Transparency Problem, More Suspicious E-mail Accounts
For Immediate Release Contact: Luke Bolar / Vitter (202) 224-4623 Becca Watkins / Issa (202) 225-0037 January 29, 2013 Vitter, Issa Investigate EPA’s Transparency Problem, More Suspicious E-mail Accounts EPA…
New FOIA lawsuit filed against the EPA
The Environmental Law Center of the American Tradition Institute PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C. Contact: Chris Horner January 28, 2013 info@atinstitute.org Today, the Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit against the…
Senator Vitter calls EPA FOI release “fishy”
For Immediate Release Contact: Luke Bolar (202) 224-4623 January 15, 2013 Vitter: Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” Emails Released are Fishy Vitter suggests EPA may be violating FOIA standards WASHINGTON, DC…
EPA Doubles Down on 'Richard Windsor' Stonewall
Guest post by Chris Horner [Emails are now available online – see below] After First admitting to Jackson’s false identity, EPA pretends it doesn’t exist So much for we have…
Update on 'Richard Windsor' – EPA Email Release 'Gravely Compounded Unlawful Activity We Have Exposed'
CEI’s Chris Horner Says Agency Has ‘Gone Bunker’ Over Growing Richard Windsor Scandal By Brian McNicoll Washington, D.C., January 14, 2013 – At about 4:55 p.m. on Monday, the Environmental Protection…
The roadmap less traveled
Guest post by Chris Horner Information continues to flow in the struggle to bail out the Hockey Team, piecing together the relevant “context” to ClimateGate. This pursuit is of critical…
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