Sue And Settle Environmental Attorneys Are Having A Harder Time At EPA
By Hank Campbell | May 30th 2018 11:16 AM | Print | E-mail
The days when environmental litigation groups like Earthjustice and Farmworker Justice had friendly voices in EPA and the White House seem like two years in the past. Because they are two years in the past. Where once environmental groups could write entire documents for the White House to repost in the name of the U.S., now they cry foul if organizations like Heartland even have email exchanges with EPA. Yet when Natural Resources Defense Council was writing policy for EPA - a move so distasteful the New York Times, which carries full-page ads for NRDC, called foul - they insisted they were doing valuable work for the public ghostwriting federal regulatory documents.
EPA is no longer on the "reliable" list activists pass around. Agency head Scott Pruitt has instead called a halt to both "sue-and-settle" agreements and "secret science" that environmentalists had used to manipulate findings to their benefit.
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