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</font></div><div><p style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Yeatman is CEI's senior fellow specializing in environmental policy and energy markets. </font></p><p style="line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His commentary has been widely featured in newspapers from coast to coast and also on nationwide television and radio. Yeatman has twice</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> testified</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> before congress and numerous times before state legislatures.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prior to joining CEI, he was a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Peace Corps</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> volunteer in the Kyrgyz Republic, where he taught entrepreneurship and small business management to rural women. Before that, he ran a homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He holds a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Masters in International Administration from the Denver University Graduate School of International Studies and a Bachelor's in Environmental Sciences</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">University of Virginia</span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Emails released to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal close ties between Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and the fossil fuel interests that fund ALEC, including the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity Group.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The emails were obtained after the Center for Media and Democracy filed an open records lawsuit against Pruitt in February for his two-year-long failure to respond to our open records requests for his email correspondence with major fossil fuel corporations.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An Oklahoma state court ordered Pruitt to release thousands of emails which are now online and <a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/Scott-Pruitt-Missing-Emails" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">available for public inspection</a>, but CMD is still in court seeking to obtain 1,600 pages entirely withheld from the public under his assertion that they are privileged from release.  CMD is also seeking emails from its first request that were not released and that include Pruitt’s correspondence in 2016 with corporations. CMD is also awaiting responses to eight other open records requests to Pruitt, whose release was delayed after the state Supreme Court halted the lower court’s order to expedite their release due to Pruitt’s dilatory handling of the requests.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Futura LT W01 Medium", sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PRUITT’S ALEC TIES</h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pruitt was an Oklahoma state senator from 2002-2007. As a legislator, Pruitt <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030215004943/http:/www.alec.org/viewpage.cfm?pgname=5.03" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">chaired</a> the ALEC Civil Justice task force in 2003 and perhaps other years. ALEC is a corporate bill mill where legislators and industry lobbyists work together behind closed doors to draft industry-friendly bills that are then introduced in state houses across the nation as “innovative” public policy stripped of their industry origins.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But Pruitt touted industry influence as a plus in an interview. “ALEC is unique in the sense that it puts legislators and companies together and they create policy collectively,” Pruitt <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161011175907/http:/www.governing.com/topics/politics/What-Makes-Alec-Smart.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One cookie-cutter bill approved by ALEC’s Civil Justice task force in 2003 was the <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Asbestos_and_Silica_Claims_Priorities_Act_Exposed" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Asbestos and Silica Claims Priorities Act.</a> It is one of many ALEC bills geared toward protecting the deadly asbestos industry and companies that don’t protect their workers from known asbestos or silica hazards. The bill increases the burden on a person bringing a lawsuit alleging an asbestos and silica-related injury.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Asbestos-related diseases kill at least 10,000 Americans every year, in many cases from mesothelioma, an incurable and painful cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. For decades, asbestos was used for insulation and industrial purposes, and the diseases particularly affect veterans, firefighters, construction workers, and individuals who worked in factories with high-heat machinery. In Wisconsin, veterans groups have been <a href="http://www.wisconsinasbestosvictims.org/veteran_groups_across_wisconsin_express_serious_disappointment_as_state_senate_passes_an_amended_version_of_ab_19_that_still_delays_and_denies_justice_for_wisconsin_veterans" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">some of</a> the most <a href="http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2013/11/05/new-rules-sought-on-asbestos-suits/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">vocal opponents</a> of the legislation: veterans make up just 8 percent of the population, but are 30 percent of mesothelioma cases.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Crystalline silica is also deadly. It can be found in sand, gravel, and stone as well as sidewalks and building materials. Silica dust has been classified as a human lung carcinogen and results in fatalities and seriously disabling illnesses. According to OSHA, silica exposure “remains a serious threat to nearly 2 million U.S. workers, including more than 100,000 workers in high risk jobs such as abrasive blasting, foundry work, stonecutting, rock drilling, quarry work and tunneling.” ALEC wants to make it harder for injured workers or their families to seek compensation.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other bills approved by ALEC around that time include:</p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Jury_Patriotism_Act_Exposed" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Jury Patriotism Act</a> (2002-2003)</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Notice_and_Opportunity_to_Repair_Act_Exposed" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Notice and Opportunity to Repair Act</a> (2003-2004)</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Drug_and_Alcohol_Defense_Act_Exposed" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Drug and Alcohol Defense Act</a> (2002-2003)</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Constitutional_Guidelines_for_Punitive_Damages_Act_Exposed" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Constitutional Guidelines for Punitive Damages Act</a> (2003)</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After Pruitt became attorney general, he stayed engaged with ALEC on energy and environmental issues. ALEC is funded by a number of big polluters including Devon Energy, Peabody Energy, Koch Industries, and ExxonMobil. In 2014, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=FBE5E961E7836420DD3B67E063AD718C&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now&r=0" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em></a> won a Pulitzer Prize after it filed an open records request and exposed the fact that Pruitt received a letter from Devon, put it on his state letterhead, and sent it to the EPA. The Devon lobbyist lauded this move as “Outstanding!”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A February 2013 <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3472490-Produce-Box-1-Redacted.html/#document/p119" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">email</a> from Amy Anderson, the ALEC Civil Justice task force staffer, asked for the AG’s digital signature for an ALEC letter. Pruitt’s office zipped over the signature minutes later. The letter was not disclosed. Another <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3472484-Produce-1600-2541-Redacted.html%20/#document/p193" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">email</a> from Anderson to Pruitt and others, provides details of Pruitt’s participation in an energy workshop at ALEC’s May 2013 meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Included in the email was an invitation to “a reception on the evening of the 3<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">rd</span> at the Petroleum Club.” The Petroleum Club is a swank private club for industry executives at the top of the Chase Tower in downtown Oklahoma City. Anderson also requested Pruitt’s attendance at a luncheon sponsored by Koch Industries because it “would be delightful to have our current legislative members benefit from his experience as a former state legislator, an ALEC member and a now attorney general.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pruitt <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/Embracing_American_Energy%20.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">spoke</a> at a December 2013 ALEC meeting on a panel called “Embracing American Energy Opportunities: From Wellheads to Pipelines.” Now we know from the Pruitt <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3472491-Produce-Box-5-Redacted.html/#document/p538" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">emails</a> that he was invited to speak at ALEC by an industry lobbyist named <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_S.Glaser" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Glaser</a>, a partner at the law firm Troutman Sanders LLP. Glaser has represented Peabody Energy and other energy companies fighting EPA efforts to address climate change.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2014, Pruitt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K12PCuBjFgI" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">spoke</a> at another ALEC meeting that was <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/coal-oil-polluters-dominate-alec-conference/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">sponsored by</a> Peabody Energy, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE).</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During his speech about the President Obama Clean Power Plan, Pruitt touted a line that polluting industries would love: “Beyond the regional haze case, we have something on the horizon, something more troubling. And that’s the proposed rule under 111(d) with respect to CO2 regulation. We have an EPA that is engaged in rulemaking, proposed rulemaking, that seeks to exert itself in a way that the statute doesn’t authorize at all.” Pruitt would join a group of states in a legal attack on the Clean Power Plan, a historic effort to rein in power-plant pollution <a href="https://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/fact-sheet-clean-power-plan-numbers" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">by one-third</a> over a span of years.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Futura LT W01 Medium", sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">KEEPING UP WITH THE KOCHS AS OKLAHOMA ATTORNEY GENERAL</h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The stack of Pruitt emails received by CMD reveal <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3472487-Produce-4000.html/#document/p111" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">email exchanges</a> between Aaron Cooper, Director of Public Affairs for the attorney general’s office and Matt Ball, Oklahoma State Director for Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the right-wing political advocacy arm of the Koch political empire.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">July 2013 emails show Ball organizing an August 22 event featuring Pruitt, Sen. James Lankford (OK-R), and <b>William Yeatman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI</b>). Both <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_candidates,2016#Oklahoma_2" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Lankford</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#CEI.27s_Foundation_Funders" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">CEI</a> have received Koch funding.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In organizing the event, Ball helpfully instructs the AG’s staff on what he wants Pruitt to say,</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Frankly, I just assume the AG and Lankford talk sue and settle, how the EPA is deploying these tactics and what their respective offices have done on oversight and litigation, and let Yeatman from CEI give an objective analysis of costs to ratepayers from revised state implementation plan on regional haze (which includes the PSO rate increase). That way you guys don’t have to deliver those messages and can focus on what the AG does best, opposing the Obama administration and its nasty tactics on the environment.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Industry groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce claim that agencies like EPA are “regulating” outside the normal rule making process when they are sued by environmentalist groups, like Greenpeace and Sierra Club, for not following the law and then settle those lawsuits in legally binding, court ordered agreements without inviting states or industry to participate.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cooper promptly responds, “I think that what be good from our standpoint.” Ball, on August 14, sends an <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3472487-Produce-4000.html/#document/p136" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">email</a> with the final schedule detailed in which he praises Pruitt for “all they are doing to push back against President Obama’s EPA and its axis with liberal environmental groups.” Pruitt led a group of state attorneys general in suing the EPA for its correspondence with environmental groups.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3472487-Produce-4000.html/#document/p181" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">another</a> email, Ball requests a same day meeting with Pruitt’s Chief of Staff and Assistant Attorney General, Melissa Houston and she agrees to meet him the next day in the AG’s conference room. The fractured emails do not indicate what the meeting was about.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3472489-Produce-6000.html/#document/p51" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">another email</a> from December 2013, invites Dean Kuckelman, Senior Counsel, Litigation and Discovery, for Koch Companies Public Sector to a conference call with two of Pruitt’s assistant attorneys general and the Solicitor General. The topic of the conference is not known.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This email followed an email from Kuckelman to Houston with an attachment produced by the American Tort Reform (ATR) entitled, “Judicial Hell Holes.” The Kochs share ATR’s goals to make it harder for consumers to sue over products and services that kill or injure people. Judicial “hell holes” refer to states where it is easier for consumers to sue or unite in class action suits against giant, deep-pocketed corporations.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is only a small sampling of the emails between Koch and ALEC staff and Pruitt staff, CMD is fighting for 1,600 pages withheld by Pruitt’s office in the lawsuit and additional emails, which will shed more light on these meetings and relationships.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The cozy relationship between Pruitt, the Kochs, ALEC crew, and the big polluters who fund ALEC will no doubt continue as Pruitt begins to dismantle the EPA.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Upon his appointment ALEC released a statement lauding Pruitt and claiming that Trump has “found just the right person to bring fresh leadership and much-needed reform to an agency currently out of control. Anyone who values striking a balance between sensible environmental regulations and the rule of law should delight in Pruitt’s appointment.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While the corporate-fueled ALEC may be delighted, Americans concerned about the future of America’s lakes, bays, rivers, and more find Pruitt’s close relationship with polluters not very charming.</p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Mountaintop_removal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mountaintop removal</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2011, William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst with the the Competitive Enterprise Institute, charged that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Environmental Protection Agency" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a>'s (EPA) revocation of a permit for a West Virginia<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">mountaintop removal</a> mining operation - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Spruce_1_Mine" title="Spruce 1 Mine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Spruce 1 Mine</a> - "would trade jobs for protection of an insect that lives for a day and isn't even an endangered species."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> The EPA, however, did not veto the permit because of a bug, but because the operation would have "buried more than six miles of high-quality streams" and "polluted downstream waters as a result," with inadequate mitigations offered by petitioner <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arch_Coal" title="Arch Coal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arch Coal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ct_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-ct-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a>  <b>Mayfly?</b></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How CEI and II Toppled EPA Region 8 Administrator James Martin</font></h1><div class="date" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By William Yeatman</font></span></div><div class="date" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 14, 2013 by <a href="http://energy.i2i.org/author/amy/" title="Posts by Amy" style="text-decoration: none;">Amy</a>
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</span></fb:share-button></font></div><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In mid-February, EPA Region 8 Administrator James Martin—who previously had served in the Ritter administration as the <b>key facilitator of the Clean Air Clean Jobs Act</b>—<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/19/breaking-richard-windsor-epa-scandal-spreads-epa-administrator-james-martin-resigns-over-hidden-email-accounts/" style="text-decoration: none;">announced his resignation</a>. The announcement came as a surprise, as Martin’s tenure at EPA was unusually brief. In fact, only one other (of 9) EPA Regional Administrators served a shorter term during the Obama administration. <b>That was EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz, who quit after infamously comparing his enforcement strategy to a “<a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/04/27/who-is-epa-crucifixion-chief-al-armendariz/" style="text-decoration: none;">crucifixion</a>.”  Martin served about 1 month longer than the disgraced Armendariz.</b></font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Martin cited “</span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/19/epa-official-scrutinized-over-emails-to-resign/" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">personal reasons</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” as the cause of his departure, but the truth is that he left amidst a storm of controversy. Only two weeks before his resignation, Martin was </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">caught lying before a federal court about the extent to which he used his private email accounts to conduct official EPA business</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Fibbing to a federal court is a much more likely explanation than “personal reasons” for Martin’s abrupt departure.</span></font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The lawsuit that led to Martin’s mendacity was filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. And CEI’s lawsuit, in turn, was based on records from a Colorado Open Records Act obtained by the <b>Independence Institute</b>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The upshot is that the two organizations likely toppled an EPA Regional Administrator. In light of Martin’s history of using public office (first in the Ritter administration, then in the EPA) to wage a war on affordable energy, the Independence Institute and CEI have performed a public service. This blog post explains how we did it.</span></font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It all began in the fall of 2010. At the time, Colorado state regulators were implementing the Clean Air Clean Jobs Act (CACJA), legislation requiring that <b>Xcel Energy</b> switch almost 1,000 megawatts of electricity generation from coal to natural gas. On this blog, Amy and I were posting regularly on the folly of the CACJA (see <a href="http://energy.i2i.org/2010/12/09/bad-day-for-colorado-energy-users/" style="text-decoration: none;">here</a>, <a href="http://energy.i2i.org/2010/11/19/xcel-changes-tune-on-%E2%80%9Crecommended%E2%80%9D-plan/" style="text-decoration: none;">here</a>, <a href="http://energy.i2i.org/2010/12/10/the-puc-has-chosen-a-hb-1365-plan%E2%80%A6so-what%E2%80%99s-next/" style="text-decoration: none;">here</a>, and <a href="http://energy.i2i.org/2010/11/16/hb-1365-update-roundup-of-arguments-on-xcel%E2%80%99s-four-new-plans/" style="text-decoration: none;">here</a>). In that capacity, we attracted the attention of the<b> Colorado Mining Association, </b>which was also opposed to the CACJA, for obvious reasons. The Mining Association had performed a Colorado Open Records Act request for all Ritter administration correspondence pertaining to the development of the CACJA. In return, the Mining Association received a huge tranche of almost 3,000 emails, which were provided to us.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails demonstrate that James Martin, who was head of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment when the Ritter administration pushed the CACJA through the General Assembly, was a central player in the development of the fuel switching plan.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet the emails also expose the fact that Martin worked exclusively from non-official email accounts while serving in the Ritter administration. Whereas every other state official involved in CACJA deliberations sent emails from a government email account (ending in “@state.co.us”), Martin  used</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> three different “@gmail.com</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” accounts.</span></font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the time, I made a mental note of Martin’s unique use of private email for public business, but I didn’t think anything more of it…</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">…Until last summer.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>A colleague of mine at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Chris Horner, </b>is one of the foremost transparency experts in the country. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberal-War-Transparency-Confessions/dp/1451694881/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363284253&sr=8-1&keywords=the+liberal+war+on+transparency" style="text-decoration: none;">He literally wrote the book on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)</a>. While researching that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberal-War-Transparency-Confessions/dp/1451694881/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363284253&sr=8-1&keywords=the+liberal+war+on+transparency" style="text-decoration: none;">book</a> last summer, he came across <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2012-08-14-DEI-Gowdy-Jordan-to-Chu-re-loan-program-emails.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">mounting</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-06/brightsource-warned-of-embarrassment-to-obama-from-loan-delays.html" style="text-decoration: none;">evidence</a> <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/06/starbucksgate-crew-calls-investigation-white-house" style="text-decoration: none;">that</a> Obama administration officials are using private email accounts to conduct official business, in an effort to circumvent public scrutiny.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His concerns prompted my memory of Martin’s practice of using his gmail accounts. So we filed a FOIA request with EPA, asking for all email correspondence about policy between Martin and the professional greens at Boulder-based <b>Environmental Defense</b>. We limited the search to email traffic to and from Environmental Defense because Martin had spent ten years there as a litigator before joining Ritter’s team. Also, we knew from the Colorado Open Records Act emails that Martin coordinated public policy with his former colleagues. To be precise, with this FOIA request, we were trying to find out how much environmental policymaking was being rendered by unelected EPA bureaucrats colluding with unelected bureaucrats. (This is a practice known as “<a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/04/11/how-epa-uses-sue-and-settle-agreements-to-steal-power-from-the-states-and-what-the-congress-is-doing-to-stop-it/" style="text-decoration: none;">sue and settle</a>” policymaking).</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s a timeline of what followed:</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>May 1, 2012</strong>: CEI files FOIA request for EPA Region 8 Administrator James Martin seeking all business emails between him and Environmental Defense. Our request noted that Martin had a history of using non-official email accounts to consuct official business.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>May 7, 2012</strong>: EPA acknowledges our FOIA request, and assigns it ID number 08-FOI-00203-12</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>July 5, 2012</strong>: EPA responds to the request. The Agency provides 11 emails from an official “epa.gov” account. Regarding our specific request for EPA’s FOIA search to include all emails, in both official and non-official account, EPA states, “Documents sent to a personal email address that an individual is not intending to use for official purposes are not Agency records.” That’s all they said. We were confused. It seemed as if EPA was dodging the issue.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>July 19, 2012</strong>: CEI files an administrative appeal of EPA’s July 5 FOIA response.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>September 9, 2012</strong>: Although the Freedom of Information Act gives EPA 20 days to respond to an administrative appeal, the Agency ignores CEI’s July 19 appeal for more than 6 weeks. So we sued EPA in the District of Colubia federal district court. Here’s a copy of our <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/complaint.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">complaint</a>.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>November 19, 2012</strong>: EPA files a <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/EPA-brief.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">motion</a> to dismiss the case. The Agency’s motion relies on a signed <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Martin-declaration.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">affidavit by Martin</a>, attesting to the fact that he had conducted a “broad” search of his personal email account, and had produced 19 records. Of the 19 records, Martin <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Martin-declaration.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">testified</a> that “While some of these documents mention EPA of environmental issues, I did not solicit them, nor did I act on them in connection with my EPA position.” Based on this evidence, EPA moved to close the case.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong>January 29, 2013</strong>: Senator David Vitter and Rep. Darrell Issa <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/29/vitter-issa-investigate-epas-transparency-problem-more-suspicious-e-mail-accounts/" style="text-decoration: none;">launch an investigation</a> into Martin’s use of private emails to conduct public business.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong>February 19, 2013</strong>: EPA Region 8 Administrator James Martin resigns.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>March 7, 2013</strong>: EPA <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/EPA-wdrawal.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">withdraws</a> its motion to dismiss the case. The Agency tells CEI that Martin had “alerted us to additional documents that he came across. In a <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/EPA-wdrawal.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">motion</a> filed in court that day, EPA states,</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Based upon its review and analysis of the content of the additional documents, the EPA has concluded that there are additional documents from Mr. Martin’s personal, non-Government email account responsive to the FOIA request at issue in this litigation.”</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Present day</strong>: CEI, the Department of Justice, and EPA are negotiating a full release of Martin’s newfound emails.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The timeline speaks for itself. Martin had a long history of using private emails to conduct official business. CEI learned of this history from the Independence Institute. CEI then filed a FOIA request to probe the extent to which Martin continued to employ non-official emails to perform official work. When EPA obfuscated, CEI sued. In the course of this litigation, Martin lied to CEI, EPA, the Justice Department, and a federal judge. Then he resigned. Case closed.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Good riddance. This is a positive development. Martin is not capable of being a disinterested civil servant. Rather, he is a professional environmentalist who has spent a career demonizing industry. It’s one thing to war with economic development as a lawyer at a deep-pocketed green group like Environmental Defense. It’s an entirely different ballgame when these same anti-industry zealots are allowed to take the reins of the EPA, and use state power to “<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81047.html" style="text-decoration: none;">bankrupt</a>” <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/09/23/yes-america-there-is-a-war-on-coal/" style="text-decoration: none;">entire sectors of the economy</a>.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7/16</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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