NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside ‘green’ lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question For Immediate Release:September 15, 2014 | Obama’s EPA in collusion…
Category: FOI
Quote of the Week – The 'Lie Big' Law (Or why can't John Cook tell the truth?)
Two words of the headline are a pun on Liebig’s law, something we covered in the context of another big lie: the “hockey stick”. Steve McIntyre in a post last…
Who’s really waging the ‘war on science’?
When it comes to attacking climate scientists, the alarmist Left has the market cornered Guest opinion by Paul Driessen Global warming alarmists constantly claim they are being “harassed” by climate…
Michael Mann's 'damages' over FOIA emails? A piddling $250
From ‘amazing tales of the vexatious’. Climate Change Dispatch writes: In a clear slap in the face, the Virginia Supreme Court awarded Michael E. Mann and the University of Virginia…
Freedom From Information Act (FFIA)
Guest essay by Charles Battig No, that is not a mistake. FFIA is the unofficial, but real operative world of bureaucracy, which has its own interpretation of the official Freedom…
Tough questions about FOIA abuse to the University of Delaware
Readers may recall this story:The Climate Wars and the University of Delaware. Now, there’s some tough questions that need answers. From: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 27 Queen Street | Edinburgh…
The Climate Wars and the University of Delaware
Guest essay by Jan H. Blits May a public university manipulate a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request of a faculty member in an effort to squelch the politically incorrect side…
White House Science Advisor John Holdren sued over emails
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…
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…
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