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A top Interior Department lawyer likely violated a federal ethics law by taking part in matters involving her former employer and clients, two watchdog groups charge in a fresh complaint filed with the department's inspector general.
Haaland WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - An open government, non-profit organization has sued the U.S. Department of Interior (DoI) for failing to immediately respond to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding a former Michael Bloomberg-funded lawyer turned senior counselor to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. Energy Policy Advocates complains in its federal lawsuit that the DoI unlawfully denied a speedy processing of ethics/recusal memoranda and documents involving Elizabeth Klein, who had served as co-director of State Energy & Environmental Impact Ce...
JAUNT releases receipts that led to FY 2020 audit findings JAUNT releases receipts that led to FY 2020 audit findings By Rachel Hirschheimer | May 5, 2021 at 4:43 PM EDT - Updated May 6 at 8:09 AM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - JAUNT, a public-private company, has released documents tied to a lawsuit settlement. Radio host Rob Schilling sued the company in January after it denied a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about its former CEO’s spending. “I had received information that there were some problems going on at JAUNT with some of the spending and some of the accounting o...
DeSmog Apr 30, 2020 @ 15:56 While fossil fuel companies defend against mounting climate liability lawsuits in court, their surrogates are working in parallel to target the attorneys, academics, and institutions supporting these lawsuits. This defensive strategy involves vigorous public records requests, and in some cases legal action or intervention, to try proving a supposed conspiracy by those working to hold polluters accountable. ExxonMobil has itself argued that attorneys general and municipal officials that have sued the company are engaged in a conspiracy to take down Big Oil. That ar...