ClimateGate Update: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA

Yesterday, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies’ refusal – for nearly three years – to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.

The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding “ClimateGate” scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries’ freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at the highest levels of international climate science bodies. Numerous informed commenters had alleged such behavior for years, all of which appears to be affirmed by leaked emails, computer codes and other data from the Climatic Research Unit of the UK’s East Anglia University.

All of that material and that sought for years by CEI go to the heart of the scientific claims and campaign underpinning the Kyoto Protocol, its planned successor treaty, “cap-and-trade” legislation and the EPA’s threatened regulatory campaign to impose similar measures through the back door.

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Tags: climate change, climate change e-mails, climate fraud, environmentalism, Freedom of Information Act
Posted Nov 25th 2009 at 6:35 pm in Environment, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 36218121 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/25/climategate-update-cei-files-notice-of-intent-to-sue-nasa/ClimateGate+Update%3A+CEI+Files+Notice+of+Intent+to+Sue+NASA2009-11-26+01%3A35%3A00Christopher+C.+Horner

Obama’s Labor Department Ignores Freedom of Information Act

On Friday, 20 November 2009, The National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation (Foundation) decided enough was enough and filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court demanding that they compel the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to comply with the Foundation’s April 6th Freedom of information Act (FOIA) request.

The Foundation’s FOIA requested:

• Records from communications and recorded events where specified Obama appointees and Big Labor official were present
• Lists of lawsuits involving the Department of Labor and Deborah Greenfield within the past eight years.
• List of any gifts received by Solis in the past 5 years from Big Labor or its officials
• Specifically provide in detail (a) notes, (b) agreements, (c) communications, and (d) agendas related to the regulations related to the labor union and officer disclosure rules
• Copies of phone logs
• Copies of any notes or documents related to any enforcement of any labor laws and any outside groups such as labor unions, American Rights at Work, or ACORN

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Tags: American Rights at WOrk, Card Check, Darrel Issa, Deborah Greenfield, FOIA request
Posted Nov 22nd 2009 at 11:32 am in Big Labor, Justice/Legal, Obama | 3457458 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloos/2009/11/22/obamas-labor-department-ignores-freedom-of-information-act/Obama%E2%80%99s+Labor+Department+Ignores+Freedom+of+Information+Act2009-11-22+18%3A32%3A57Don+Loos

Climate Change: The ‘Planned Recession’ Strategy

Well, the admissions just keep on coming. In the UK, lead canary for all things “climate change” — for example, polls show a majority of their public now see the agenda as just a new excuse for the state to extract more wealth from its citizens — we have a paper by the Tyndall Centre for  Climate Change Research saying the agenda demands “reducing the size of the economy through a ‘planned recession’”, in the words of the Daily Telegraph. Tyndall is an activist consortium of British academic institutions known for carrying the banner on the “climate” agenda.

The Telegraph offers an eye-catching sub-head: ” Britain will have to stop building airports, switch to electric cars and shut down coal-fired power stations as part of a ‘planned recession’ to avoid dangerous climate change.”

This should only surprise you if you have relied upon claims by the global warming industry — itself a consortium of activists inside and outside of government, Big Science, Big Academia, and other rent-seeking industry crafting schemes to profit in the near-term from the wealth-transfers — or the Obama administration, desperate to walk-back the president’s admission that his plan of cap-and-trade will “bankrupt” all sorts of facilities and cause your energy prices to “necessarily skyrocket.”

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Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 3:15 pm in Congress, Environment | 1145483 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/10/02/climate-change-the-planned-recession-strategy/Climate+Change%3A+The+%27Planned+Recession%27+Strategy2009-10-02+22%3A15%3A28Christopher+C.+Horner