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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">huntonwms817</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">has its own node in moderation brain:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hunton & Williams</b>&nbsp;is a law firm, but like many “shops” it provides its corporate clients a number of services.&nbsp; One of its clients, the&nbsp;<b>US Chamber of Commerce,&nbsp;</b>(recall that trade groups have become an important buffer, allowing industry, especially polluters, to launder money to organizations to further their interests without fear of consumer or stockholder retaliation) asked them to go after groups such as ChamberWatch and unions.&nbsp;&nbsp; H&W in turn solicited three military contractors (Team Themis named itself after the of goddess of justice)&nbsp; "to launch a highly sophisticated campaign to subvert and sabotage the enemies of their clients. In some cases these plans involved illegal actions. The targets were journalists, labor unions, and political opponents." (dkos)&nbsp; The fee could have been as much as two million dollars (per month?),&nbsp; The Chamber denied the plan, but emails showed they met with H&W multiple times.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of a number of troubling aspects is the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;targeting of journalist</span>&nbsp;Glen Greenwald because of his support for Wikileaks.&nbsp; From H&W’s PowerPoint pitch:</font></p><ul style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is this level of support that needs to be disrupted</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These are established professionals that have a liberal bent, but ultimately most of them if pushed will choose professional perservation over cause, such is the mentality of most business professionals.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Without the support of people like Glenn Wikileaks would fold.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fang: “. The tactics&nbsp;<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: blue;">proposed</span></span>&nbsp;included&nbsp;<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: blue;">spying</span></span>&nbsp;on families, using&nbsp;<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: blue;">malware computer viruses</span></span>&nbsp;to steal private information, using fake documents to embarrass liberals, and creating fake identities to infiltrate their targets.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We would probably not know of any of this if Chamber member and fellow H&W client Bank of America was not getting worried about what Wikileaks would reveal, so HBGary’s Barr tried to hack&nbsp;<b>Anonymous;</b>&nbsp;they hacked him instead and made the emails public.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Summary:&nbsp; we have observed the right is willing to use any tactic to win, and they have nearly unlimited resources.&nbsp; If they can’t win on the science, they’ll attack the scientists.&nbsp; If legal means fail (including using the law and the police), they’ll use illegal ones.&nbsp; Perhaps given the stakes we should not be surprised.<b>&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 27px;">“Glick concludes that historically, "dissenting groups came under attack as they began to seriously threaten the status quo." Since the environmental movement "threatens to meddle with people who control billions of dollars, it should be no surprise when they fight back," says Glick, "especially as corporate and government officials come to realize how dramatically they will have to restructure their activities in response to the environmental crisis." (Chip B)</span></b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="line-height: 27px;"></span></b></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/uwag-and-uswag-the-secretive-utility-groups-that-target-epa-rules/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.energyandpolicy.org/uwag-and-uswag-the-secretive-utility-groups-that-target-epa-rules/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">may 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">matt kasper</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">The&nbsp;</span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/utility-air-regulatory-group/" target="blank" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Utility Air Regulatory Group</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;</span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/10/epa-air-chief-3238271" target="blank" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">announced</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;on Friday that its remaining members had decided to disband the embattled project after more than 40 years. UARG had been an unincorporated group of utilities represented by lawyers at&nbsp;</span><b>Hunton</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;Andrews Kurth that fought against clean air standards.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">But while the utilities may have dissolved UARG, the same corporations still have other “U Groups” that exist to attack EPA’s enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws. Just as utilities used UARG to target the Clean Air Act, they have the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG) and the Utility Water Act Group (UWAG) to attack EPA’s enforcement of the Clean Water Act and other laws that utilities have long perceived as thorns in their sides.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">USWAG is represented by lawyers at Venable LLP. Attorneys from </b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hunton </b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Andrews Kurth, the same firm that housed UARG, represent the members of UWAG.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Both U-groups are set up similarly to UARG: unincorporated, voluntary, ad-hoc coalitions that do not disclose individual utility members. USWAG has been a party in 88 lawsuits since the early 1990s while UWAG has been a party in 99 cases since 2000, according to the Public Access to Court Electronic Records.</span></font></p><h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 25.2344px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, Utility Water Act Group targeting Obama-era rules; also subsidized by utility customers</font></span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">UARG’s utility members faced intense scrutiny in recent months since&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/epa-air-pollution-regulations-wehrum-1191258" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Politico obtained and published</a>&nbsp;confidential documents that outlined goals for a meeting of UARG’s policy committee to attack Obama-era clean air and public health rules.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The spotlight brightened when leading Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee&nbsp;<a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-launch-investigation-of-secretive-front-group-uarg-and-its-ties" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">sent letters</a>&nbsp;to several member-utility CEOs asking for information about EPA air official Bill Wehrum’s relationship with UARG and its member companies</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Wehrum was an attorney at Hunton and represented UARG. Congress&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/democrats-call-for-investigation-of-top-epa-officials-role-in-reversing-enforcement-position" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">is investigating</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;how he and another former Hunton lawyer now at the EPA, David Harlow, have helped reverse the agency’s position in a major enforcement action to favor a client of their former law firm – DTE Energy.</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>The Congressional probe into UARG requested that the utilities state whether they had forced their customers to fund their annual contributions to the collective legal effort</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. Journalists and consumer advocates also pressed individual utilities to answer the question posed from the members of Congress.</span><b>&nbsp;Several utilities, including&nbsp;<a href="https://insideepa.com/daily-news/utility-aep-tells-house-democrats-ratepayers-fund-uarg-dues" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">American Electric Power</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/aps-quits-lobbyist-group-ethics-probe-epa-officials-srp-tep-11273451" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Arizona Public Service</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/aps-quits-lobbyist-group-ethics-probe-epa-officials-srp-tep-11273451" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Tucson Electric Power</a>, admitted that they force their customers to fund UARG expenses and therefore the legal challenges to the Clean Air Act.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;Others, such as&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/congressional-probe-looks-at-lobbying-group-funded-by-ameren-other/article_4c61b33d-b7fd-5e4c-9a08-d26a0d3a8486.html" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Ameren</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/11/house-panel-probes-dte-utility-support-industry-groups/3435466002/" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">DTE Energy</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060169943" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Dominion</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060169943" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Duke Energy</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;did not provide details about the source of UARG funding.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rate case filings reveal that many utilities similarly force their customers to fund their attacks on EPA’s ability to enforce the Clean Water Act via USWAG and UWAG</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;In 2017, the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5770321-Minnesota-Attorney-General-Direct-Testimony.html#document/p52/a486802" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">argued</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;that customers of Minnesota Power shouldn’t foot the utility’s membership bill for both USWAG and UWAG</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Missouri Public Service Commission Staff&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3461233-MO-PSC-Statement-of-Positions-EEI-Dues.html#document/p4/a353010" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">explained</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;that Ameren shouldn’t bill its customers $96,010 for UWAG annual dues and $47,163 for USWAG. And in&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">November of 2018, the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5765622-Kentucky-Attorney-General-Data-Requests-Kentucky.html#document/p69/a486078" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">attempted to prevent</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities customers from paying the $68,175 for USWAG annual dues and $109,501 for UWAG.</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">In a</span><b>&nbsp;2016 Arizona Public Service rate case, the Residential Utility Consumer Office (RUCO)</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3625848-RUCO-Filing-APS-EEI-Dues.html#document/p37/a483616" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">described</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;the U-groups as “purely voluntary, many of which are political in nature, and may not be necessary for the provision of utility services.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Earlier this month,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://insideepa.com/daily-news/5th-circuit-judges-appear-split-suit-over-delay-utility-effluent-rule" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">UWAG attorneys were in court</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;to join the defense of the Trump administration’s two-year delay of Obama’s Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) rule. Two years ago, </span><b>Hunton</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> attorneys representing UWAG&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-03/documents/letter_to_epa_submitting_petition_for_reconsideration_w_exhibits-c_508.pdf" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">petitioned the Trump EPA</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;to reconsider the ELG rule. Under President Obama, the EPA finalized an update to the rule as it hadn’t been updated since the early 1980s. The rule exists to limit the wastewater that power plants can discharge in waterways.&nbsp;</span><b>That&nbsp;<a href="https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/07/power-plant-effluent-limits/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">wastewater includes</a>&nbsp;arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, chromium, and cadmium.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>USWAG attorneys, meanwhile, have&nbsp;<a href="https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2017/12/coal-ash-rule/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">targeted a coal ash rule</a>,&nbsp;</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>which the Obama Administration proposed in 2010 following the largest toxic waste spill in U.S. history at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston. One billion gallons of coal ash sludge destroyed 300 acres and dozens of homes</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. The rule established a set of requirements for the safe disposal of coal ash from coal-fired power plants. Similar to the ELG rule,&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2017/12/coal-ash-rule/" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">USWAG was quick to petition</a><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;the Trump EPA to reconsider parts of the coal ash rule. In September 2017, then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/blog/Signed%20CCR%20Petition%20Response2017-09-13-155129.pdf" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">announced</a><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;that it will review parts of the rule that USWAG addressed in their petition.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Ten years after the Kingston spill that triggered the rule which USWAG has fought to undermine,&nbsp;</span><b>400 workers who cleaned up the spill have been sickened. Another 40 died,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;according to a tally maintained by the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/05/03/workplace-safety-rally-kingston-coal-ash-workers/3632667002/" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 209, 224); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Knoxville News Sentinel</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">.</span></font></p></div><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; display: inline-block; width: 841.203px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ul class="meta-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Utility Air Regulatory Group</a>&nbsp;</font></li><li class="meta-tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; display: inline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block;">Tagged in:</span>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/tag/uarg/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">UARG</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/tag/utility-air-regulatory-group/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Utility Air Regulatory Group</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/tag/utility-solid-waste-activities-group/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Utility Solid Waste Activities Group</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/tag/utility-water-act-group/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Utility Water Act Group</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/tag/uwag/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">UWAG</a></li></ul></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;=</font></p></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="line-height: 27px;"></span></b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="line-height: 27px;">in-depth:</span></b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">Hunton & Williams</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; line-height: 19.5px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d788dd67-aa0d-bc6b-ebab-e21a418401f0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" style="">
</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><font size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Established in 1901, it is on its seventh name; Lewis Powell is one of its most famous alum, a partner for a quarter century. it’s where he was working when he was tapped as Chief Justice of the US by Nixon</span>? Just before then, he was chatting with his neighbor Sydnor, head of the Chamber of Commerce. (Both the CoC and NAM emerged to challenge FDR, for example on allowing unions to organize, but CoC has now emerged as the senior and more evil twin).(was it rehnquist who ended up less conservative than planned?]. Powell memo was a plan to counter the attacks on business/corps, really the next wave of reform after New Deal. After WWII, unions/manufacturing were strong (it helped that Japan and European factories were rubble), share prosperity, rising standard of living, GI Bill led to rising levels of education and productivity.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><font size="4" style=""><b style="background-color: transparent;">H&W is both a law firm that helps companies pollute and escape responsibility, it’s also a lobbying shop that helps them write the rules so they don’t have to evade them :</b> oil companies BP, Exxon, marathon, as well as a slew of coal companies.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> And of course its biggest coup (though it lost) was the Mother of All climate/air quality cases, Massachusetts v EPA.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" style=""><b>Mass v EPA 2007</b></font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" style="">Bush admin 2003 EPA decided it did not have the authority to regulate GHG/CO2, and even if it did, it would not set emissions on vehicles (CTW resigned 2003, replaced by SL Johnson, liked pesticides, not CAFE standards, investigated); blue states, green groups and scientist orgs sued to make EPA do its job;</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">2005 appellate district court upheld, but divided; SCOTUS quickly jumped in; Justice Stevens ruled they had standing; Roberts and Scalia dissented on broad issue (or at least Scalia dissented on standing)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">on remand, 6 GHG need reg; tx, alabama Va ~?</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4"><b>A huge watershed ruling, but in some ways just intensified subsequent denier efforts in general, but the law particularly, with perhaps some spillover into Polar Bear lawsuits</b> (preclude as much as possible involving the Endangered Species Act, long the bete noir of the Wise Use property rights wackos of the West; plus it adds nature as protected the way Mass v EPA incorporates human protection; Polar bear suit flows out to attack scientists. See elsewhere/later CORE on Ozone, Clean Power Plan; it's a death match.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><font size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hardly seems a fair fight when H&W has between 800-1000 lawyers, deep pocketed and desperate clients, plus they make up these buffer groups UARG, CO2 Litigation Group </span>(which is at least honest/upfront about what it is: CoV, NAM, steel, oil, cement] , but then we have the more cuddly names (friends of, concerned, responsible/sane).</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">Each of these companies (or actually trade group, as buffer) will often have their own law firm, and presumably they work together.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">In its clearly promotional puff piece on Wikipedia, H&W boasts it was first to create a <b>pro bono division,</b> and indeed it has won awards, seems like there’s a rule that all/partners participate, they claim 48K hours (down a bit (post-recession?) and 4% of . &nbsp;And the sheer number of kinds of cases is indeed impressive, and they note that they are stepping up/in to fill the gap left by defunding of legal aid, but you have to wonder if its corporate clients are creating on the macro scale its pro bono folks band-aid at the back end.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">Featured as a </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">partner who does pro bono work is Ed Fernandes, Houston. Thier pro </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">bono page boasted about helping a young Honduran mother avoid </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">deportation, but oddly noted she had come via Cuba in the classic </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">style favored by anti-Commie fighters (Dallas seems to do some as </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">well, but Iraqi, mothers at Rikers]. The page also notes that 48K </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">had flooded in, so one case not so impressive. Mr Fernandes’ pro </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">bono efforts seem confined to serve on committees to increase </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">diversity at the bar (is that really a huge problem?). Mr. F boasts </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">of winning a case that sets an important precedent: we can poison </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">water of Endangered Species and divert water they need for their </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">habitat because TEQA is a state agency, and the law, he argues, only </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">applied to Federal agencies. </span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">He was assisted in this by Kathy Robb, </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">who created the front group Water Policy Institute with CTW; [ the </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">saga of the Windsock Dummy who sadly did not get the memo in time </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">and foolishly went to Italy to a meeting on climate change. She was </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">greeted on her return with a letter written by Cheney but signed by </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">four seniors senators (perhaps a spin on the Kyoto ploy?); she tried </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">to regain credibility by upping the standards on arsenic, but </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">mysteriously the American people were not thrilled with the idea. </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">She decided to spend more time with her family, starting a </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">consulting business to help clients undermine the laws she was </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">supposed to uphold at EPA [to be fair, the rogues gallery of Bush </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">Admin regulators who had not been taken back to the mother ship of </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">the corps, and even those [or especially those who had been] fired, </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">went thru the revolving door to cash in too]. Currently in the </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">gridlocked Congress there’s an attempt to extend (and thus there’s </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">also an effort to stop it) and to the first responders of 911 who </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">were told by CTW EPA that the air was safe (though asbestos …), </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">the Sierra Club reports that she was under considerable pressure by </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">B43 who told us the best way we could fight back was to go shopping, </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">but apparently his big concern was to get the NYSE opened only a few </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">days after 911 (and of course the Twin Towers were picked precisely </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">because they symbolize the economic might of the US in the </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">financialized globalized economy). CTW tried to cover later by </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">saying EPA had no power to force the First Responders to wear </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">respirators (a states rights matter?), but presumably if she’d </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">told them, as she surely knew, that they were in danger, force </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">required would have been minimal.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">But i digress; Robb tells of her origins for her passion for the law and the environment in giving advice to aspiring young women: family car trips to national parks, after a liberal education at U Texas Austin, she headed to UVa and law school; after Robb “ served as a law clerk to the Hon. Glen M. Williams, U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia. The Judge was one of Kathy’s early mentors and he shaped her views about social justice and using the law as a tool to empower people. Kathy explained that the judge had been passionate about working with illiterate miners in Virginia when he was a young lawyer, helping them register to vote.” heartwarming, but biography of her mentor, a district court judge is oddly hard to find; the only case I could readily find :</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">[“The states have also directed their counter-attacks through the federal</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">courts and have won victories in the judicial arena. In January,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">1980, for example, U.S. District Court Judge Glen M. Williams ruled</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">that P.L. 95-87 is in part unconstitutional and economically burdensome</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">on the State of Virginia.77 Judge Williams permanently enjoined</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">from enforcement those sections of the act that deal with the issuance</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">of cessation orders and civil penalties which, as he interpreted the</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">facts of the case, deprived mine operators of procedural due process</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">of the law as guaranteed by the fifth amendment.” end ]</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">She also evokes her other mentor when she first joined H&W, Walter Taylor Reveley, III (clerked for Brennan, JSTOR) president of Wm & Mary, Reveley was “very fond of ghost tours and stories. He has been cited as seeing various ghosts among the William and Mary campus as well as Historic Williamsburg. Reveley is well-loved by the student body, who turn out en masse to see him read How the Grinch Stole Christmas at the College's annual Yule Log ceremony.” Robb’s first big case with him was getting the Shoreham Nuclear Plant on Long Island licensed. Before this could be completed, Three Mile and then Chernobyl made New Yorkers reconsider; Though the plant cost 6 billion (85 times its estimated cost; apparently they kept tearing it down and rebuilding it, Gov Cuomo bought it so i could not be operated (WTR argued during licensing, opposed by Senator Ted Kennedy) that he law only required people living within ten miles to be evacuated, and since it was impossible to evacuate Indian Head, we should not worry about the issue at and ). The plant is near commercial flight path and proving ground where they test new military jets). because the people of Long Island are still paying for it (though the same consulting firm that advised Cuomo to go public on it is now advising how the privatize it, so will make money either way; also Bear Stearns made millions on its sale, quit in one role so it could get a percentage of the sale 2 million?]. Ironically, because the Long Island Power was so broke, it could not stockpile poles, so when Sandy hit, people were without power for weeks and months. Occupy Sandy helped when no one else would/could; only 1000 or 300000 rebuilt?)</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">Carrying on the proud tradition of her mentors, Robb has helped SuperFund polluters, such as PCB’s, but most of her work is about developing wetlands at the expense of Endangered Species such as the Whooping Crane and the Florida Panther (those of you reading her resume, along with all those who work for the “public interest non-partisan” law organizations such as Pacific Legal, Mtn States, WLF and their evil ilk, Coors funded Powell Memo to challenge the NAACP and EPA, could be forgiven, especially they way they boast about the cases, that they are HELPING the poor beleaguered critters; the real message to prospective clients is we can expose kids to carcinogens and wipe out beautiful charismatic megafauna, so we can fix whatever little glitch ya’ll got.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">Her current big project (also a warm and fuzzy one?) is Water Policy Institute with CTW. Seems schizophrenic in that it had a meeting with legitimate scientists on water issues (its promised white paper on climate has not yet appeared, though this seminar promised related topics such as ocean acidification). The other advertised event seems much more about how corps can evade environmental regulations. WPI big clients are BP (8.7 billion in damage to Gulf] and GE (later trying to develop technology to deal with Alberta Tar Sands, and perhaps we can look fwd to fracking fluid as well; Edelman) and desal plants.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">[“</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" underline="underline" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">Michael Campana</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">, of Oregon State University's Institute for Water and Watersheds, wrote that the Institute "is sponsored by a Park Avenue law firm, has corporate members, and has an advisory panel with attorneys for 6 of its 8 members. Ask me why I'm not expecting anything but the SOS."</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" underline="underline" vertical-align="vertical-align" super="super" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">[4]</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">end]</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><font size="4">Trans: presumably because of its long associations with the Chamber of Commerce (recall the Powell Memo was for his pal on the next plantation), it is perhaps (not?) surprising that the Bush DoJ recommended that it hire H&W to deal with its hacktivist problems (or was that B of A, actually they are both clients))</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; line-height: 19.5px;"><font size="4" style="">


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</font></div><div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/that-1970s-scourge-acid-rain-is-back/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">1970s scourge acid rain is back</font></a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/sarah-okeson/" title="Posts by Sarah Okeson" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Sarah Okeson</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/dc-report/" title="Posts by DC Report" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">DC Report</a></font></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Starting in the 1970s acid rain turned hundreds of lakes and streams in Adirondack Park in upstate New York so acidic that fish could not survive. Acid rain can be…</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That 1970s scourge acid rain is back</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Written by Sarah Okeson /&nbsp;<b>DC Report&nbsp;</b>October 26, 2019</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Starting in the 1970s acid rain turned hundreds of lakes and streams in Adirondack Park in upstate New York so acidic that fish could not survive. Acid rain can be so toxic that it etches paint off cars.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The good news: some naturally reproducing trout were recently found in one body of water in the Adirondacks. Lake Colden had been without such naturally grown fish for 32 years. This revival comes after decades of government work to reduce the toxic air emissions that cause acid rain.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The bad news: Team Trump seems determined to create a comeback for acid rain. That would mean 500 other Adirondack ponds and lakes would continue without naturally breeding fish. Worse, some of the sprawling park’s 2,300 other bodies of water might also become too toxic for other wildlife such as crayfish, salamanders and frogs. And because acid rain leaches aluminum in the soil it also kills trees.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For people in the Northeast, it would also mean more asthma and heart disease as people breathe in air laced with greater amounts of sulfur dioxide, a toxic gas that causes acid rain.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Trump EPA wants to squash Obama era rules that would force owners of electric power plants to clean up their toxic wastes.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">To understand how Team Trump helps polluters and hurts everyone else, consider the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<b>coal-burning Martin Lake Power Plant in east Texas. It spews more sulfur dioxide than any other power plant in America. Last year it spit out 56,198 tons of sulfur dioxide, a 54% increase over 2017.</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Acid rain, then and now.(From Environmental Defense Fund)]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Now the Trump EPA wants to squash Obama era rules that would force owners of this and other power plants to clean up their toxic wastes</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Owners who escape these clean-up costs reap bigger profits. The rest of us pay the price: more sickness, shorter lives for some and hundreds of lakes with no fish surrounded by dying forests.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>To help polluters escape those costs the Trump administration puts executives, lawyers and lobbyists for polluting companies in charge of various units of the Environmental Protection Agency and other regulatory bodies.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;Instead of enforcement of clean air laws, Team Trump runs a protection racket for polluters.</span></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Plant Owners Identified</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Texas power plant is owned by<b>&nbsp;Luminant Generation Co., part of Vistra Energy. One of Vistra’s lobbying firms once employed a lawyer who was hired to head the Trump EPA air office. Vistra is one of nine politically connected polluters being scrutinized by Congressional investigators. In 2018 alone it gave more than $101,000 to members of Congress at a three-to-one ratio favoring Republicans</b>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>The lawyer was Bill Wehrum, who oversaw the Trump EPA’s air policy office until he resigned in June during a federal ethics investigation.&nbsp;</b>Previously Wehrum was a partner at&nbsp;<b>Hunton & Williams where he made $2.1 million</b>. That law&nbsp;<b>firm is now known as Hunton Andrews Kurth.</b>&nbsp;<b>A Congressional report dubbed the law firm “industry’s secret pipeline to EPA.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Vistra Energy paid $140,000 in<b>&nbsp;lobbying fees&nbsp;</b>last year to Hunton Andrews Kurth.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Wehrum was accused of repeatedly violating his ethics pledge and legal duty to refrain from EPA matters involving his former clients</b>. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, known as CREW, in May filed a detailed<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;14-page complaint against Wehrum with the EPA’s acting inspector general.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Other big sulfur dioxide polluters include DTE Energy Co., represented by<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;Hunton</span>&nbsp;Andrews Kurth in a long battle with the EPA over pollution from its coal-fired power plant in Monroe</b>, Mich.&nbsp;<b>David Harlow, attorney for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, previously represented DTE for Hunton Andrews Kurth.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Lobbyists As Regulators</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Soon after Harlow and Wehrum joined the EPA, the agency changed its position on a core issue in DTE’s case, adopting the company’s view.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A slightly different pro-polluter tactic was adopted for the power plant in east Texas. With former lobbyists for polluters in charge, the EPA made a mistake during the Obama years when it declared that parts of two counties near the Martin Lake plant exceeded the standard for sulfur dioxide emissions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Trump’s EPA now wants to say the two-county area is “unclassifiable.” That would allow the plant to continue spewing tons of toxic air.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Because of actions assisting polluters, environmentalists fear acid rain is back.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While rain typically is slightly acidic with a pH reading of close to 6, acid rain is sometimes 3.2. That may not seem like much because pH is a scale. But acid rain can be more than 200 times more acidic than pollution-free rainfall.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/the-embarrassing-revelations-of-cyber-security-firm-hbgary-federal/342116/">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/<b>2011</b>/02/the-embarrassing-revelations-of-cyber-security-firm-hbgary-federal/342116/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hudson</font></div><div><p style="font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Until recently, very little was known about the cyber security firm HBGary Federal. In general, the California-based contractor helped corporations learn about and discredit their detractors. But the extent to which the firm carried out that task was never fully understood until a group of hackers&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/politics/12hackers.html" id="xkq:" title="exposed" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'1',r'342116'" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">exposed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;tens of thousands of its internal company e-mails earlier this month. The emails have come to reveal the lengths large organizations are willing to go to to ward off and undermine critics, embarrassing in the process clients including Bank of America, the Chamber of Commerce and the Air Force. Here's what HBGary has been proposing to do (not all of the supposed clients have admitted their involvement):</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" display="Display" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif">Help Bank of America With Wikileaks</span>&nbsp; In November, executives at Bank of America were on edge as&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/30/is-bank-of-america-wikileaks-next-target/?boxes=techchannellighttop" id="dlns" title="rumors circulated" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'2',r'342116'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">rumors circulated</a>&nbsp;that WikiLeaks was preparing to release thousands of damning documents about the financial institution. Observing an opportunity, HBGary CEO Aaron Barr pitched a plan to BofA's law firm, Hunton & Williams. According to the released documents, Barr wanted to team up with security firms Palantir and Berico Technologies and<b> disgrace WikiLeaks</b> by hacking into it and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/219769/hacked_and_now_vandalized_hbgary_pulls_out_of_rsa.html" id="oe1o" title="feeding it fabricated documents" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'3',r'342116'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">feeding the whistle-blower site fabricated documents</a>. The company also suggested going after WikiLeaks supporters such as<b> Salon's Glenn Greenwald</b>. A presentation to the law firm noted that “Without the support of people like Glenn, WikiLeaks would fold.”</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" display="Display" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif">Help the Chamber of Commerce With Chamber Watch&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>As we pointed out&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/DCs-Dirty-Tricks-Revealed-in-Memo-for-the-Chamber-of-Commerce-7083" id="ndh7" title="yesterday" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'4',r'342116'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">yesterday</a>, the e-mails also reveal that HBGary tried to discredit the watchdog group US Chamber Watch, a dogged critic of the US Chamber of Commerce. Politico reports that the <b>Chamber's law firm (again, Hunton & Williams), actively worked with HBGary.</b> "To degrade [Chamber Watch’s] messaging capabilities and credibility would represent a huge win for the CoC and should be a focus," one e-mail read. The plan was to create a "fake insider persona" within Chamber Watch to make them publicize fabricated materials in an effor to "prove that U.S. Chamber Watch cannot be trusted with information and/or tell the truth."</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" display="Display" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif">Help the U.S. Air Force Win Hearts and Minds?</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp; Another revelation from the document dump was that the U.S. Air Force was seeking ways to manipulate social media to spread pro-government propaganda. After the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.seankerrigan.com/docs/PersonaManagementSoftware.pdf" id="suhk" title="request for proposal" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'5',r'342116'" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">request for proposal</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;was issued, it caught the attention of HBGary. Information Week has the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229219056&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News" id="ksoi" title="details" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'6',r'342116'" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">details</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span></font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; padding: 40px; border-radius: 5px; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
The fake-personal social media contract would allow the government to "friend" real people on Facebook as a way to show support for pro-government messages, according to information revealed during the hack.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The software could cross-reference all available social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other services to collect data on real individuals, and then use this to gain access to users' social circles, according to the emails...</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By using information -- such as their high schools, colleges, and home towns -- that users freely share on social networking sites, the Air Force could gain access to individual's social circles, creating a Classmates.com account at the same school and within the same graduating class, and then creating a Facebook account in the name of a real person who does not have a Facebook account, the email exchanges said. By friending someone with 300 to 500 friends, a fake persona easily can develop mutual friends before sending a friend request to the targeted individual, the emails said.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"When choosing to participate in social media, an individual is only as protected as his/her weakest friend," according to the documents.</font></p></blockquote></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=hunton_and_williams_1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div id="pageHeading" style="margin: 15px 0px 20px;"><h1 style="padding: 3px 3px 3px 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Profile: Hunton and Williams</font></h1></div><div id="entityRelations" style=""><div id="entityQuotes" style=""><h2 style="margin: 3px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton and Williams was a participant or observer in the following events:</font></h2><div class="timeline-paging" style=""><div class="listOfEntitysEvents" style="margin-top: 35px;"><div id="timelineEntries" style="margin-top: 40px;"><div class="i" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-right: 5px; padding-left: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="a021011uscocsabotage" /></font><div class="iT" style="width: 524px; display: table;"><h2 style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; width: 400px; float: left;"><a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a021011uscocsabotage#a021011uscocsabotage" title="View in context" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">February 10, 2011: Liberal News Site Exposes Trade Organization’s Plan to Undermine, Sabotage Democratic-Supporting Organizations</font></a></h2><div class="eLB" style="width: 115px; float: right; vertical-align: top; text-align: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.historycommons.org/eventedit.jsp?oid=1626004942-106772" title="Edit event" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img src="http://www.historycommons.org/pics/icons/edit.png" alt="Edit event" height="16" style="border: none;" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div></div><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
The liberal news Web site Think Progress, an affiliate of the Center for American Progress, reports that it has discovered evidence of a potentially illegal scheme to entrap and destabilize political organizations, including Think Progress, that support President Obama and other Democrats. The scheme, in development since November 2010 at least, centers around the US Chamber of Commerce (USCOC), a large trade organization that makes large secret donations to Republican candidates and organizations (see&nbsp;<a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=a01212210ussccuuscoc" style="text-decoration-line: none;">January 21-22, 2010</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=a100510usscforeign" style="text-decoration-line: none;">October 2010</a>), and a law firm, Hunton and Williams, hired by the USCOC.</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;According to emails secured by Think Progress, Hunton and Williams is working with a set of private security firms—HBGary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called “Team Themis”)—to develop tactics to damage progressive groups and labor unions. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of the organizations and unions targeted include Think Progress, a labor coalition called Change to Win, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), US Chamber Watch, and StopTheChamber.com.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;The last two are small organizations dedicated to exposing some of the secretive practices of the USCOC. One project proposed by Team Themis is an entrapment scheme. The proposal called for the creation of a “false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” to give to a progressive group opposing the USCOC, and then exposing the document as a fraud, thus undermining the credibility of the organization.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another proposal involved using potentially illegal computer-hacking techniques to create what the group calls a “fake insider persona” to “generate communications” with Change to Win and to undermine the credibility of US Chamber Watch. The proposal actually advocates the creation of two such personas, one to be used “as leverage to discredit the other while confirming the identity of the second.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Together, “Team Themis” asked for $200,000 for initial background research and another $2 million for an active disinformation campaign. It is unclear from the emails whether any of the proposals were accepted, and if the disinformation campaign was ever launched. Think Progress was recently provided with the emails by members of “Anonymous,” an online “hacktivist” community responsible for attacking the Web sites of oppressive regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, along with American corporations that have censored the online information repository WikiLeaks.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails were secured from HBGary Federal after one of that firm’s executives, Aaron Barr, tried to take Anonymous down. Barr claimed to have penetrated the group and intended to sell the data he collected to Bank of America (BoA) and to US federal authorities. In return, Anonymous hackers penetrated Barr’s email account and published some 40,000 company emails. Barr intended to approach Bank of America, Think Progress writes, because WikiLeaks is believed to have sensitive information about the firm that it intends to publish later in the year. BoA hired Hunton and Williams and other law firms to pursue WikiLeaks.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BoA’s legal team also targeted Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald, an outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks, saying that it had plans for “actions to sabotage or discredit” him. The USCOC posts a response to Think Progress on its blog dismissing the report as “baseless attacks.” And prominent liberal blogger Marcy Wheeler (see&nbsp;<a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=a041809emptywheel266" style="text-decoration-line: none;">April 18, 2009</a>) says that the Think Progress report will probably “cause the Chamber of Commerce to rethink the spying work with HBGary it apparently has been considering.”&nbsp;<cite style="font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">[<a href="http://bradblog.com/Docs/TeamThemis_HWProposal_110310.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">BERICO TECHNOLOGIES, 11/3/2010&nbsp;<img src="http://www.historycommons.org/pics/icons/pdfbw.png" alt="pdf file" style="border: none;" /></a>;&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/10/143419/lobbyists-chamberleaks/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">THINK PROGRESS, 2/10/2011</a>]</cite>&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Liberal blogger Brad Friedman, who has spent years covering voter suppression tactics by political organizations, will soon learn that he is targeted by Team Themis.</span> An email sent by Barr and provided to Friedman “focused on me included names, personal information, home addresses, etc. of myself, family members, and a number of other members of VR,” Friedman will write. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">(Velvet Revolution is an “umbrella group” that includes StopTheChamber</span>.) “Part of the plan included highlighting me as a ‘Tier 1’ player in a sophisticated disinformation/discrediting scheme that relied on high-tech tools developed for the US government’s ‘War on Terror.’&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Team Themis’ US Chamber of Commerce plan was to deploy the very same techniques and technology used to track terrorists, terror organizations, and nations such as Iran, against private non-profit political advocates and citizens in the US.”</span> The email also lists the names of people whom Barr clearly believes to be Friedman’s wife and two children (Friedman says the names listed are not family members—he is not married and has no children).</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;The email also lists a Maryland address as Friedman’s home—another error, as Friedman lives in another state. Friedman will write that obviously Barr and his researchers found another, unrelated person named Brad Friedman and learned personal details about that person and his family. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Prominent officials such as Ilyse Hogue of MoveOn.org and Robert Weissman of Public Citizen are also listed for “targeting.</span>”&nbsp;<cite style="font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">[<a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8354" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">BRAD FRIEDMAN, 2/14/2011</a>]</cite></font></p><p style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; width: 524.563px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite style="font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">
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</div><div>Original file:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>1297011421.M208636P25652Q610.cybercom</div><div>click here to show this e-mail with HTML markup</div><div>From:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Matthew Steckman <msteckman palantir.com="palantir.com" /></div><div>To:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>HBGARY-Aaron.Barr <aaron hbgary.com="hbgary.com">, Eli Bingham <ebingham palantir.com="palantir.com" /></aaron></div><div>Date:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thu, <b>2 Dec 2010 </b>13:32:42 -0800</div><div>Subject:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>RE: URGENT - OPPORTUNITY</div><div>click here to show full headers</div><div>Attachments:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>This e-mail does not have any attachments.</div><div>That works. I'll send an invite.</div><div>
</div><div>Here is the summary of my call:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They are pitching the bank to retain them for an internal investigation around wikileaks. They basically want to sue them to put an injunction on releasing any data.<b> DOJ called the GC of BofA and told them to hire Hunton and Williams, specifically to hire Richard Wyatt</b> who I'm beginning to think is the emperor. They want to present to the bank a team capable of doing a comprehensive investigation into the data leak. Currently they are recommending:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>-Hire H&W as outside council on retainer&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">-Use<b> Palantir</b> for network/cyber/insider threat investigation&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>-Use Berico/HBGary to analyze wikileaks the organization</b> (people, history, where they are located) Apparently if they can show that wikileaks is hosting data in certain countries it will <b>make prosecution easier</b>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">-Use a team of GD/PWC forensics investigators. [?]</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>They have a half hour with the GC of the 3rd largest bank in the world to plead their case.</b></div><div>
</div><div>They want 5-6 slides from Palantir-HBGary-Berico outlining what we can do. It's due tomorrow morning.</div><div>
</div><div>Matthew Steckman</div><div>Palantir Technologies | <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Forward Deployed </span>Engineer</div><div>msteckman@palantir.com | 202-257-2270</div><div>
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</div><div>-----Original Message-----</div><div>From: Aaron Barr [mailto:aaron@hbgary.com]&nbsp;</div><div>Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:29 PM</div><div>To: Eli Bingham</div><div>Cc: Matthew Steckman; BERICO-Sam.Kremin</div><div>Subject: Re: URGENT - OPPORTUNITY</div><div>
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</div><div>On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Eli Bingham <ebingham palantir.com="palantir.com"> wrote:</ebingham></div><div>
</div><div>> Fine by me.</div><div>></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> Sent from a phone</div><div>></div><div>> -----Original Message-----</div><div>> From: Matthew Steckman</div><div>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 01:24 PM Pacific Standard Time</div><div>> To: HBGARY-Aaron.Barr</div><div>> Cc: BERICO-Sam.Kremin; Eli Bingham</div><div>> Subject: RE: URGENT - OPPORTUNITY</div><div>></div><div>> Just spoke with John. I've got details.</div><div>></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> Can everyone jump on a conference call at 5pm?</div><div>></div><div>> Dial-in: 866-740-7142</div><div>> Conference code: 4941574</div><div>></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> Matthew Steckman</div><div>> Palantir Technologies | Forward Deployed Engineer</div><div>> msteckman@palantir.com <mailto:msteckman palantirtech.com="palantirtech.com" xmlns:mailto="mailto"> | 202-257-2270</mailto:msteckman></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> Follow @palantirtech</div><div>></div><div>> Watch youtube.com/palantirtech</div><div>></div><div>> Attend Palantir Night Live <http www.palantirtech.com="www.palantirtech.com" government="government" pnl="pnl" /></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> From: Aaron Barr [mailto:aaron@hbgary.com]</div><div>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:16 PM</div><div>> To: Woods, John</div><div>> Cc: BERICO-Sam.Kremin; Matthew Steckman; Eli Bingham</div><div>> Subject: Re: URGENT - OPPORTUNITY</div><div>></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> Sure thing. I will work on it tonight. Sam?</div><div>></div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> Aaron</div><div>></div><div>> From my iPhone</div><div>></div><div>></div><div>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 3:55 PM, "Woods, John" <jwoods hunton.com="hunton.com"> wrote:</jwoods></div><div>></div><div><b>> Richard and I am meeting with senior executives at a large US Bank tomorrow regarding Wikileaks. </b>We want to sell this team as part of what we are talking about. I need a favor. I need five to six slides on Wikileaks - who they are, how they operate and how this group may help this bank. Please advise if you can help get me something ASAP. My call is at noon.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the big outstanding questions in the story of the plot to undermine WikiLeaks and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, as well as a separate plan to discredit critics of the Chamber of Commerce, is the nature of the role played by the large international law firm Hunton & Williams.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks. &nbsp;I am not sure I will share what you sent last night – he might freak out. &nbsp;I will advise him that he may want to look at his facebook material. &nbsp;If you really want to impress Richard [Wyatt], I would look at the following web-site and tell him something about the guys behind it:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I hope you are doing well. Rick Faulk and i would appreciate the opportunity to visit with you about our initiative for</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy and the Environment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Henry N. Butler</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: Hastie, Roderick&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 7:00 PM</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To: Henry Butler</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Henry:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I just got off the phone with General Fox. He has agreed to be your luncheon speaker on April</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7. The topic will cover the issue that executive branch agencies can only exercise the authority</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">delegated to them by the Congress. Thus, the President’s Climate Action Plan created no new legal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rights or obligations. He will speak with John to further refine the speech. They will need to know the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">details of how long he has&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laurence Tribe, constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School and of-counsel at the firm Massey & Gail LLP, recentlytestified in front of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce against the proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carbon rule.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Currently working as legal counsel for coal industry giant Peabody Energy and helping the company write comments, Tribe submitted a 57-page legal memo to accompany his five-minute testimony (starting at 22:43). In December 2014, Tribe submitted 35 pages worth of comments to the EPA on its proposed rule.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joining Tribe were both New York University School of Law professor Richard Revesz and Hunton & Williams attorney Allison Wood, who testified for and against the Clean Power Plan, respectively. But Tribe served as the star witness and fielded most of the questions from the Committee during the question-and-answer session.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fittingly given his distinguished legal background, Tribe argued against the Clean Power Plan on constiutional law grounds.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Burning the Constiution should not become part of our national energy policy,” Tribe wrote in the early pages of the legal memo he submitted to the Committee. “At its core, the issue the Clean Power Plan presents is whether EPA is bound by the rule of law and must operate within the framework established by the United States Constitution.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also proposed a solution — favored by his client Peabody — in a section titled, “There is a Better Way.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The United States could…support carbon capture and storage technologies,” Tribe wrote, not mentioning Peabody's advocacy for so-called “clean coal.”&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“An 'all of the above' energy policy can support all forms of domestic energy production that will minimize carbon emissions, protect consumers and American jobs, and ensure that the U.S. remains independent from unreliable foreign sources of energy.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Rebuttal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advocates for the Obama carbon rule, such as the Sierra Club, rebutted Tribe.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Harvard University may pay Laurence Tribe to teach law school classes, but when it comes to Tribe’s positions on the Clean Power Plan, it’s the coal industry signing the checks,” David DiMartino, advisor to the Climate Action Campaign — which advocates for the Clean Power Plan — and employee of Blue Engine Media, said in an email statement provided to DeSmog. &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Make no mistake: the polluter industry’s attempt to buy a high-profile law professor, just as they’ve contributed hundreds of millions to buy their agenda in Congress, won’t fool the overwhelming majority of Americans who want Congress to take action on climate change.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), credited by The New York Times as a key behind-the-scenes author of the Clean Power Plan, has also taken umbrage with Tribe's legal posturing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Peabody/Tribe claim that the Clean Power Plan won’t make any difference to climate change. That’s false,” David Doniger, director of NRDC's climate and clean air program, told DeSmogBlog via email. “Everyone knows that curbing climate change requires action by all of the world’s major contributors, including the U.S. The question is how can the U.S. best exert leverage to make this happen.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December, Doniger wrote a blog post critiquing Tribe's legal argument contained in the comments he submitted to the EPA.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tribe, Wood Industry Ties</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tribe currently represents or has recently represented many corporate clients, including fossil fuel industry interests, throughout his storied legal career.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond Peabody, Tribe currently represents the Bill Koch-funded Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound; 7-Eleven, Inc., QuikTrip Corp., and Kum & Go, L.C; along with the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Petroleum Institute and many others in a class action lawsuit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the past, Tribe has also represented the likes of General Electric and Consumer Energy Alliance, an industry front group. An article by the Daily Climate's Marianne Lavelle points out some of Tribe's other corporate legal ties.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Allison Wood, the Hunton & Williams attorney testifying against the Clean Power Plan in concert with Tribe, also has represented (or currently represents) many industry actors. But she did not disclose any of them in her truth in testimony form submitted to the Committee, simply listing herself as a partner at the firm on the form and on her testimony.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wood's clients have included American Electric Power, Southern Company, a utility industry front group called the Utility Air Regulatory Group, another utility industry front group called the Clean Air Markets Group, Edison Electric, as well asExxonMobil and Murphy Oil. &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On her biography page for Hunton & Williams, Wood openly states that she served of counsel for industry clients, calling them “representative” of who she tends to work with.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Her representative clients include companies and trade associations in the electric generation industry, petroleum industry, manufacturing industries, and transportation and land development industries,” reads the biography.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither Tribe nor Wood responded to requests for comment sent via email by DeSmog.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams’ Utility Air Regulatory Group:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• &nbsp; American Electric Power</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• &nbsp; Edison Electric Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• &nbsp; Duke Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• &nbsp; Energy Future Holdings</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• &nbsp; Southern Company</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;He created a wiki page, called it ProjectPM [5], and invited other investigative journalists to join in. Under Brown’s leadership, the initiative began to slowly untangle a web of connections between the US government, corporations, lobbyists and a shadowy group of private military and information security consultants.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One connection was between Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce. WikiLeaks had claimed to possess a large cache of documents belonging to Bank of America. Concerned about this, Bank of America approached the United States Department of Justice. The DOJ directed it to the law and lobbying firm Hunton and Williams [6], which does legal work for Wells Fargo and General Dynamics and also lobbies for Koch Industries, Americans for Affordable Climate Policy, Gas Processors Association, Entergy among many other firms. The DoJ recommended that Bank of America hire Hunton and Williams, explicitly suggesting Richard Wyatt[7] as the person to work with. Wyatt, famously, was the lead attorney in the Chamber of Commerce’s lawsuit against the Yes Men.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wikifluff, busted for it, see talk</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Lawyers September Issue Profiles 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, September 8, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams Wins TRO for BofA in Colonial Bank Dispute, August 14, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Appoints Robert J. Grey, Jr. as Interim Executive Director, August 28, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Counterpunch, 1 May 2009, Corporate Think Tanks Muddy the Waters: Life, Death and Water Policy - Hunton & Williams and the Water Policy Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gazprom turns to Hunton UK for TruRead investment, March 31, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams Advises Gazprom on Purchase, July 5, 2006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Africa Special Report: The art of conversation, April 6, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Report: Energy, September 1, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">US quartet scoops airline mega-merger, April 28, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams: The London eye, April 3, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First Amendment Lawyer Says Drug Companies Also Have Speech Rights, August 27, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">from talk</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Lawyers September Issue Profiles 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, September 8, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams Wins TRO for BofA in Colonial Bank Dispute, August 14, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Appoints Robert J. Grey, Jr. as Interim Executive Director, August 28, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Counterpunch, 1 May 2009, Corporate Think Tanks Muddy the Waters: Life, Death and Water Policy - Hunton & Williams and the Water Policy Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gazprom turns to Hunton UK for TruRead investment, March 31, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams Advises Gazprom on Purchase, July 5, 2006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Africa Special Report: The art of conversation, April 6, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Report: Energy, September 1, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">US quartet scoops airline mega-merger, April 28, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams: The London eye, April 3, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First Amendment Lawyer Says Drug Companies Also Have Speech Rights, August 27, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MAY 1-3, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporate Think Tanks Muddy the Waters</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Life, Death and Water Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by DIANE FARSETTA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May 2008, the major law firm Hunton & Williams launched the Water Policy Institute (WPI), a think tank-esque, industry-supported consortium formed "to address water supply, quality and use issues," according to its website.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the initial flurry of press releases, WPI appeared to languish. Then, ten months after its formation, WPI issued its first white paper. "Water Wars: Conflicts Over Shared Waters" focuses on two river basins in the Southeastern United States. The paper urges the states involved — Georgia, Florida and Alabama — to put aside litigation and work with federal mediators to reach an agreement on water allocation. It also supports further study of seasonal water use, ecological issues and efficiency measures.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The white paper’s conclusions seem reasonable, even obvious. So much so that it’s unclear why Hunton & Williams felt the need to recruit major public relations and corporate powerhouses when forming WPI — and what they, and the law firm, get out of the effort.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is clear is that WPI, Hunton & Williams and their corporate allies have a long history of siding with (or being) polluters and attempting to undermine water quality safeguards. It seems reasonable, therefore, to worry that whatever WPI is up to, it’s likely to do more harm than good.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WPI’s usual suspects</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Water Policy Institute’s chair is former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Todd Whitman. After leaving the EPA, Whitman founded her own public relations firm. The Whitman Strategy Group’s clients include FMC Corporation, a chemical and pesticide manufacturer; the oil company Chevron’s Environmental Management Company; and the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), an industry lobby group. Since 2006, Whitman has co-chaired the NEI-funded and Hill & Knowlton-managed Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a pro-nuclear front group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I have, for many years now, believed that water is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world in the 21st century," Whitman stated, in a speech at WPI’s inaugural meeting. Since first being elected to public office 25 years ago, she said, "I have been wrestling with water issues." WPI "will help policymakers in every sector better understand — and more effectively communicate and advance — the need for action," she added.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are also financial incentives for Whitman’s involvement with WPI. Whitman "is now helping to bring clients to the law firm of Hunton & Williams as chairwoman of its new Water Policy Institute," reported Congressional Quarterly in June 2008. "Whitman’s firm will get an undisclosed fee for its work."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to Whitman’s political star power, WPI presumably benefits from the connections and resources of its founding corporate members: BP, GE Water and the Central Arizona Project. As a multinational oil, gas and fuels company, BP’s interests in water issues are significant. For example, the company is invested in Alberta’s tar sands, where oil development requires — and pollutes — large volumes of water. Last year, BP was party to a $423 million settlement compensating U.S. public water systems for contamination from the gas additive MTBE.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GE Water describes itself as "a leading global supplier of water treatment, wastewater treatment and process systems solutions." In an August 2006 press release, the company enthused, "Globally, the water market is $365 billion and offers a high growth potential." Its products range from water treatment chemicals, filters and membranes; to industrial water management systems; to "mobile water" emergency back-ups. GE Water boasts "the world’s largest base of desalination systems," which use an energy-intensive process to produce fresh water from seawater or salty water. GE Water is also involved with Canada’s tar sands, as part of a $15 million effort "to improve water usage" during oil extraction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Central Arizona Project is a "336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines" that directs Colorado River water to three Arizona counties. The "quasi-governmental entity" that runs the project has hired the Hunton & Williams firm to weigh in on several water-related legal cases. Due to growing population, drought and climate change, the Central Arizona Project is likely to face increased competition for water resources. It’s also nervous about possible carbon tax or cap-and-trade policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as it relies on the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station for its substantial power needs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton for Robb</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Water Policy Institute’s home, Hunton & Williams, isn’t the most environmentally-friendly law firm. In a landmark 2007 case before the U.S. Supreme Court, the firm argued that the EPA shouldn’t be allowed to regulate carbon dioxide. By the time the court ruled against them, Hunton & Williams "had built up a team of energy lobbyists who could … work to minimize the potential damage to their clients through legislation," reported The Hill.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams’ lobbying clients include the oil giant ConocoPhillips, the electric industry’s Edison Electric Institute, infamous polluter Koch Industries and the powerful National Association of Manufacturers lobby group. Also on the list is "Americans for Affordable Climate Policy," a front group formed by coal interests to ensure that any cap-and-trade system gives free emissions credits to industry. Hunton & Williams’ non-lobbying clients include Altria (formerly known as Philip Morris), military contractor General Dynamics, drugmaker Pfizer and Texas energy company Luminant (formerly known as TXU).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On water issues, Hunton & Williams lobbies for the Waters Advocacy Coalition, another industry front group whose members include the National Mining Association, the anti-regulatory and industry-funded Western Business Roundtable, the pesticide industry group CropLife America and the American Forest & Paper Association, which represents the "forest products industry."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WPI’s director is Kathy Robb, a Hunton & Williams partner focused on resources, regulatory and environmental law. In a 2005 filing with the U.S. Supreme Court, Robb argued that hydroelectric dam operators shouldn’t be regulated under the Clean Water Act. In 2005 and 2006, Robb filed briefs on behalf of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, which operates the Central Arizona Project. The briefs supported a canal lining project that environmentalists and local groups feared would dry up wetlands and harm rural communities. Robb’s clients include "developers, electric utilities, investors, chemical manufacturers, and paper mills," according to Hunton & Williams’ website.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robb has said that WPI is interested in issues of water "scarcity and pricing and … how you can encourage people to conserve," "recycling and reclamation," "the interconnection between energy and water," and "the intersection increasingly of water quality and water quantity issues." How do those laudable goals square with Robb’s legal work to restrict the application of the Clean Water Act, with the interests of WPI’s corporate members, or with Hunton & Williams’ clients?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I called Robb’s office to request an interview. Her assistant quickly identified a time, several days later, when I could speak with her. Then, just before the interview was supposed to take place, the assistant called back to cancel it. I repeatedly contacted the office to reschedule. At one point, a nervous-sounding woman asked me where the interview would appear and what questions I would ask Robb. More than two weeks, several phone calls and emails later, it seems safe to conclude that Kathy Robb doesn’t want to talk with me.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Life, death and water policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathy Robb’s silence doesn’t bode well for WPI. Serious policy groups realize that, in order to have any credibility, they must either scrupulously avoid or fully disclose potential conflicts of interest. If WPI has any such policies, they’re not public. WPI’s website doesn’t even include a list of its members.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2003, former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali stated, "Water will be more important than oil this century." Today, an estimated one billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water. In 2025, the UN predicts that 1.8 billion people will live in areas with "absolute water scarcity." According to a June 2008 technical paper for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there is "very high confidence" that "adverse effects of climate change on freshwater systems [will] aggravate the impacts of other stresses, such as population growth, changing economic activity, land-use change and urbanisation."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These are serious, complex and urgent issues. The last thing we need is another corporate front group muddying the waters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DIANE FARSETTA is the Center for Media and Democracy’s senior researcher. She can be reached at: diane@prwatch.org</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founded in 1901, Hunton & Williams LLP is a US law firm that employs more than 800 lawyers. The firm was founded in Richmond, Virginia and has 18 other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents &nbsp;[hide]&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 History</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Current operations</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 Awards for labor outsourcing and offshoring</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 External links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm was founded in 1901 in Richmond, Virginia by Henry W. Anderson, Eppa Hunton Jr., Beverley Munford, and Randolph Williams as Munford, Hunton, Williams & Anderson. It focused primarily on litigation, business and finance law.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm has changed names over the years; its seventh name, in 1976, was Hunton & Williams; it became Hunton & Williams LLP in 2003. The firm's most notable member, a name partner from 1954 until 1972, was Lewis F. Powell, Jr., who became a member of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm's initial hire of a woman was Elizabeth Tompkins, the first woman graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, who worked as a summer clerk at Hunton & Williams in 1921 and 1922. In 1943, during the Second World War, two women lawyers were hired to work at Hunton & Williams: Sarah Geer Dale and Nan Ross McConnell. Dale's first case involved a labor-law issue for Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock. She left the firm in 1945 to get married and retired from the practice of law. McConnell stayed on until 1948, when she married.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Current operations[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consistent with a firm that claims a former U.S. Supreme Court Justice as an alumnus, Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., Hunton & Williams was the first law firm in the United States to open an office solely for the practice of law pro bono.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm has a Centre for Information Policy Leadership, which focuses on privacy and data protection work.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The managing partner, Walfrido J. "Wally" Martinez, has held that position since March 2006.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Awards for labor outsourcing and offshoring[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the firm has over 40 lawyers regularly allocated to working for the outsourcing industry, utilizing resources from the network of 800 other lawyers in the firm and prides themselves as having "over the past two decades, our attorneys have executed hundreds of outsourcing transactions worldwide valued at billions of dollars."[1] In acknowledgement of the law firms efforts, Hunton & Williams was listed by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) as one of the "2012 World's Best Outsourcing Advisors", who "navigate" and arrange the organization of those businesses overseas for clients.[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the practice was ranked the #1 and #3 Outsourcing and Offshoring Legal Advisor in Brown & Wilson's Black Book of Outsourcing for the years 2008 and 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b Practices:Global Outsourcing, Global Outsourcing, Hunton & Williams, retrieved February 11, 2013</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External links[edit]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams LLP</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Centre for Information Policy at Hunton & Williams</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The data dump from the HBGary hack was so vast that no one person could sort through it alone. So Brown decided to crowdsource the effort. He created a wiki page, called it ProjectPM [5], and invited other investigative journalists to join in. Under Brown’s leadership, the initiative began to slowly untangle a web of connections between the US government, corporations, lobbyists and a shadowy group of private military and information security consultants.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One connection was between Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce. WikiLeaks had claimed to possess a large cache of documents belonging to Bank of America. Concerned about this, Bank of America approached the United States Department of Justice. The DOJ directed it to the law and lobbying firm Hunton and Williams [6], which does legal work for Wells Fargo and General Dynamics and also lobbies for Koch Industries, Americans for Affordable Climate Policy, Gas Processors Association, Entergy among many other firms. The DoJ recommended that Bank of America hire Hunton and Williams, explicitly suggesting Richard Wyatt[7] as the person to work with. Wyatt, famously, was the lead attorney in the Chamber of Commerce’s lawsuit against the Yes Men.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In November 2010, Hunton and Williams organized a number of private intelligence, technology development and security contractors—HBGary, plus Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and, according to Brown, a secretive corporation with the ominous name Endgame Systems—to form “Team Themis”—‘themis’ being a Greek word meaning “divine law.” Its main objective was to discredit critics of the Chamber of Commerce, like Chamber Watch [8], using such tactics as creating a “false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” giving it to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then subsequently exposing the document as a fake to “prove that US Chamber Watch cannot be trusted with information and/or tell the truth.” In addition, the group proposed creating a “fake insider persona” to infiltrate Chamber Watch. They would “create two fake insider personas, using one as leverage to discredit the other while confirming the legitimacy of the second.” The leaked e-mails showed that similar disinformation campaigns were being planned against WikiLeaks and Glenn Greenwald.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was clear to Brown that these were actions of questionable legality, but beyond that, government contractors were attempting to undermine Americans’ free speech—with the apparent blessing of the DOJ. A group of Democratic congressmen asked for an investigation [9] into this arrangement, to no avail.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read more: The Strange Case of Barrett Brown http://www.thenation.com/print/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown#ixzz2Y7fLyn6F&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Follow us: @thenation on Twitter | TheNationMagazine on Facebook</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some journalists are now understandably afraid to go near the Stratfor files. The broader implications of this go beyond Brown; one might think that what we are looking at is Cointelpro 2.0—an outsourced surveillance state—but in fact it’s worse. One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working alongside the HBGarys and Stratfors on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups. The mere fact that the FBI’s senior cybersecurity advisor has recently moved to Hunton and Williams shows just how incestuous this relationship has become. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is also using its power and force to trample on the rights of citizens like Barrett Brown who are trying to shed light on these nefarious relationships. In order to neutralize those who question or investigate the system, laws are being reinterpreted or extended or otherwise misappropriated in ways that are laughable—or would be if the consequences weren’t so dire.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lee fang: Koch recently retained Orion Strategies, a PR firm run by Weekly Standard writers like Michael Goldfarb, Wilson Miller Communications, and PR consultant Ron Bonjean, as well as government affairs firms like Cove Strategies, Hunton & Williams, ADS Ventures, the Palmetto Group, and Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti. In addition to their communication consultants, Koch is being aided by the right-wing media investments they have made over the years.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams is an international law firm with 19 offices "throughout the US, Europe and Asia," according to its website. [1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[hide]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 Chamber of Commerce spying proposal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Anti-environmental lobbying</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 Water Policy Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 Tobacco ties</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 HBGary, Bank of America, and the Chamber of Commerce controversy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 Lobbying clients</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Clients</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 Contact details</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 Articles and resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.1 Related SourceWatch articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.2 References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.3 External resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.4 External articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams received a proposal from three data security contractors for U.S. federal defense and intelligence agencies to monitor and manipulate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's left-leaning critics, according to the Los Angeles Times, which obtained e-mail correspondence pertaining to the case. Employees of the data security contractors presented Hunton and Williams with short dossiers on a few anti-Chamber activists that included photographs, references to their families and charts of their relationships with other liberal and labor leaders. Hunton and Williams is the law firm that represents the Chamber. Hunton also represents Bank of America, and solicited a separate proposal from the same security firms to help the bank deal with a threat by WikiLeaks, to release sensitive information. The Chamber denied paying the contractors for the information, and Hunton refused to comment. Another target revealed in the emails was the Service Employees International Union.[3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A review of the correspondence, dating from late October through last week, suggested that the surveillance and intelligence gathering had begun only on a superficial basis in anticipation of a coming meeting with chamber officials.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The proposals were received by Hunton & Williams, a law firm that represents the chamber.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm, which also represents Bank of America, solicited a separate proposal from the security firms to help the bank deal with a threat by WikiLeaks, the international hacker organization, to release some of the bank's internal data.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chamber officials as well as a spokesman for Bank of America said they knew nothing of the surveillance proposals until the e-mails were released Friday by Anonymous, a group that is sympathetic to WikiLeaks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"No money, for any purpose, was paid to any of those three private security firms by the chamber, or by anyone on behalf of the chamber, including Hunton & Williams," the chamber said in a statement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams did not respond to requests for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in some of the e-mails, employees of the security firms and lawyers at Hunton & Williams refer to contacts they had made with the chamber about the proposed intelligence gathering.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The revelations in the e-mails triggered anxiety among some of those who were targeted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We are appalled at the allegations that have come to light in these e-mails," said Inga Skippings, communications director of the Service Employees International Union, some of whose allies were the subject of the intelligence gathering project. "The chamber should immediately come clean about its involvement with Hunton & Williams and the private security firms that allegedly planned these underhanded tactics."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ThinkProgress, an arm of the liberal Center for American Progress and a consistent critic of the chamber, first reported on the e-mails on its blog last week.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a statement, the chamber accused its critics of "perpetrating a smear campaign by trying to create the illusion of a connection" between it and the security firms.[st'd formula: deny everything and make counter-accusations]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Officials for two of the security firms, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies, confirmed the authenticity of the e-mails sent by their employees but said top executives had no previous knowledge of them.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman for the third company, HBGary Federal, said executives could not address the details of the proposed work for Hunton & Williams, citing a nondisclosure agreement covering all parties.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Copies of the e-mails were provided to the Los Angeles Times by the labor and activist groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The correspondence shows that starting last fall, Hutton & Williams lawyers discussed with the security companies a project to be pitched to the chamber.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The three security firms, all of which are government contractors with secret clearances, proposed coming together as "Team Themis," apparently named after a Greek goddess of law and order, to monitor and possibly disrupt chamber opponents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Who better to develop a corporate information reconnaissance capability than companies that have been market leaders within the [Defense Department] and Intelligence Community," the companies wrote in a pitch to Hunton & Williams.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At one point, those working on the project estimated it could be worth $2 million.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Team Themis report e-mailed to two Hunton & Williams attorneys in December by a Berico Technologies analyst suggested planting a "false document" in hopes it would be publicly released by anti-chamber groups. The plan also called for creating "two fake insider personas" inside the activist organizations that could then be used to discredit the groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other sample reports included mock dossiers of activists, some with false information about their marital state and address but with actual photographs of them.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no evidence that the firms carried out those plans or used secret data to compile their dossiers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palo Alto-based Palantir Technologies and Arlington, Va.-based Berico Technologies have moved swiftly to distance themselves from the tactics described in the e-mails, severing their relationship with Sacramento-based HBGary Federal and saying that company proposed the aggressive tactics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir Technologies, a data integration software company, said in a statement Monday that it "never has and never will condone the sort of activities recommended by HBGary."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company said it had placed on leave Matthew Steckman, a 26-year-old engineer who was the point person on the project, and apologized to those listed as targets in the campaign.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Guy Filippelli, chief executive of Berico Technologies, said he believed that his company was assisting development of a proposal to help the Chamber of Commerce and its members use public information to identify security and information threats.] http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/15/nation/la-na-chamber-20110215/2</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In Massachusetts v. EPA, Hunton argued that Congress did not intend to give the EPA powers to regulate carbon dioxide when it wrote the Clean Air Act," reported The Hill. While the Supreme Court disagreed, "by the time the court announced its ruling, the firm had built up a team of energy lobbyists who could field questions from clients and congressional staff about the decision’s implications -- and work to minimize the potential damage to their clients through legislation." [4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In its other lobbying work, "Hunton lawyers argued on behalf of Conoco [in 2006] that the company should be eligible for a $1-a-gallon tax credit for producing renewable diesel by adding animal fats to its traditional refining process. The IRS agreed. The firm's lobbyists are now working to protect that credit against efforts in Congress to limit its application to biodiesel plants, which use a different process." [4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm has also represented the West Virginia Coal Association in its fight to continue mountaintop removal mining, Georgia Power in its effort to fend off a race discrimination suit brought by former employees, and the Tennessee Valley Authority in its battle to avoid installing pollution controls at its coal-fired power plants.[5]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & William is also a major lobbying force, with lobbying income of more than $2.8 million in 2010. Among its biggest lobbying clients are energy firms: Energy Future Holdings (formerly TXU Corp.), Southern Company, Gas Processors Association, FirstEnergy, and Koch Industries. Also among the firm's lobbying clients are Duke Energy and Progress Energy, and Americans for Affordable Climate Policy, a front group formed by Duke Energy and other coal utilities.[5]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2008, Hunton & Williams established the Water Policy Institute (WPI), a think tank "bringing together industry leaders ... to address water supply, quality and use issues." [6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WPI is chaired by former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief turned PR consultant Christine Todd Whitman, with Hunton & Williams partner Kathy Robb as its director. Its founding corporate members included BP, Central Arizona Project and GE Water. [6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Climate change is likely to be a major topic" of the Water Policy Institute, according to a profile in the Clean Water Report. "Other topics will include the intersection of water quality and quantity; desalination; new technology; agriculture; allocation of water; and infrastructure." [7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tobacco ties</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams was counsel for Philip Morris. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996). They are a law firm in Richmond, Virginia (USA) and were a major law firm used by Philip Morris Cos. Inc., circa 1993.(NJL 5/9/94) Attorneys T. Justin Moore III, Robert E.R. Huntley, were on the board of directors of Philip Morris Cos. Inc., circa 1993.(NJL 5/9/94)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HBGary, Bank of America, and the Chamber of Commerce controversy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2010, Aaron Barr, CEO of the technology security company HBGary Federal, alleged that he could exploit social media to gather information about hackers like those who supported WikiLeaks. In early 2011, Barr claimed to have used his techniques to infiltrate the Wikileaks supporter Anonymous, partly by using IRC, Facebook, Twitter, and social networking sites. His e-mails depict his intention to release information on the identities of Anonymous members and to sell it to possible clients.[8] In early February of 2011, the activist group Anonymous hacked the firm's website, copied tens of thousands of documents from HBGary, posted tens of thousands of company emails online, and usurped Barr's Twitter account.[9]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the documents taken by Anonymous show HBGary Federal was working on behalf of Bank of America to respond to Wikileaks' planned release of the bank's internal documents.[10] The plan included "disrupting" reporter Glenn Greenwald in his support of Wikileaks. Emails detail a supposed business proposal by HBGary to assist Bank of America's law firm, Hunton & Williams, in a "dirty tricks campaign" that included proposals to fabricate "false documents"[11]: "Potential proactive tactics against WikiLeaks include feeding the fuel between the feuding groups, disinformation, creating messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization, and submitting fake documents to WikiLeaks and then calling out the error."[12]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to other e-mails, the Chamber of Commerce hired the lobbying firm Hunton & Williams, and attorneys for the law firm then solicited a set of private security firms — HB Gary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called Team Themis) — to develop a sabotage campaign against progressive groups and labor unions, including the group ThinkProgress, the labor coalition Change to Win, the labor union SEIU, U.S. Chamber Watch, and StopTheChamber.com. Later emails revealed that the private spy company investigated the families and children of the Chamber’s political opponents. The apparent spearhead of this project was Aaron Barr, who circulated numerous emails and documents detailing information about political opponents’ children, spouses, and personal lives.[13]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm's lobbying practice brought in $5,260,000 in 2007 and $2,365,000 in the first three quarters of 2008, according to the Lobbyists.info database. Lobbying clients, as of February 2009, include: [14]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Acxiom Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advanced Security Systems</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Electric Power Company</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Peanut Shellers Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Affordable Climate Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blank Rome LLP/Blank Rome Government Relations, LLC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cleco Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Community Power Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ConocoPhillips</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CSX Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DTE Energy (terminated October 2008)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Duke Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Edison Electric Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Electric Reliability Coordinating Council</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy Future Holdings Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entergy Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FirstEnergy Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Foundation for Environmental and Economic Progress</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gas Processors Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Headwaters, Inc. (terminated October 2008)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch Industries, Inc.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lake Michigan Car Ferry Service</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marathon Oil Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Association of Manufacturers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Association of Mortgage Brokers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Crop Insurance Services</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NewMarket Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PEPCO Holdings, Inc.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progress Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soap and Detergent Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Societe Interoleagineuse D'Assistance et de Development - SIA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Southern Company</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texas Association of Mortgage Brokers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TXU Business Services Company</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United States Sugar Corporation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Virginia Beach Municipal Center, Office of City Attorney</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Waters Advocacy Coalition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WEST Associates</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Xcel Energy, Inc.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other 2008 lobbying clients listed in the OpenSecrets.org database are: [15]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Agricultural Internationall Insurance Research Svc</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Centerline Holding Company</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">General Electric</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch Mineral Services</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Magellan Resources Group</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MMA Financial</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PPL Electric Utilities</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sempra Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Starwood Energy Group Global</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Altria</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bank of America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BellSouth</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cingular</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diageo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DTE Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">General Dynamics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MasterCard</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pfizer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PM USA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smithfield Foods</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SunTrust</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TXU Corp.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">US Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wells Fargo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? "Offices," Hunton & Williams website, accessed February 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Katherine Boyle, "WATER: Former EPA administrator to head policy institute," Greenwire, June 4, 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold, Washington Bureau Government contractors targeted Chamber of Commerce's critics, Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 4.0 4.1 Jim Snyder, "Hunton &?Williams fires up lobbying practice," The Hill, July 18, 2007.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 5.0 5.1 Sue Sturgis, "Well-connected law firm involved in dirty-trick plot against activists, journalists" Facing South, Feb. 16, 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 6.0 6.1 Press release, "Water Industry Leaders Launch Water Policy Institute to Address Current Challenges: Christine Todd Whitman to serve as chair; Hunton & Williams lawyer as director," Hunton & Williams, June 4, 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? "New water institute seeks to convene diverse voices," Clean Water Report, June 18, 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? How one man tracked down Anonymous - and paid a heavy price By Nate Anderson, updated 2-10-2011, Ars Technica, retr 2011-02-11</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Bright, Peter (2011-02-15). Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack. Law & Disorder: Tech Law and Policy in the Digital Age. Ars Technica. Retrieved on 18 February 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Cite error: Invalid tag; no text was provided for refs named james_wray_and_ulf_stabe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Leyden, John (2011-02-17). Anonymous security firm hack used every trick in book. Enterprise Security. The Register. Retrieved on 18 February 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Firm targeting WikiLeaks cuts ties with HBGary - apologizes to reporter Steve Ragan, Tech Herald, 2 11 2011, retr 2011 02 11</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Joseph Romm, "Bombshell: Chamber of Commerce lobbyists solicited firm to investigate opponents’ families, children" ThinkProgress, Feb. 13, 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? "Hunton & Williams LLP," Lobbyists.info (sub req'd), accessed February 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? "Lobbying spending 2008: Hunton & Williams," OpenSecrets.org, accessed February 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? "Our clients," Hunton & Williams website, accessed February 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the successes cited by Law360 was Hunton & Williams' major triumph in late July, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned a ruling that would have required the Tennessee Valley Authority to spend more than $1 billion to install emissions controls at four coal-fired power plants in Alabama and Tennessee. In that widely watched case, the appellate court rejected North Carolina's public nuisance claims against the utility, pointing out that the plants had the necessary state permits and abided by the Clean Air Act.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Formed in 1970, soon after passage of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Air Act, the Hunton & Williams environmental team has helped clients navigate every major federal environmental statute, and those of most states and many international jurisdictions. The team advises a range of industries on innovative responses to environmental compliance, represents companies in litigation and administrative permitting and regulatory proceedings, and ensures that clients have a voice in shaping policy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Hunton and Williams, $60,000 (2009), $150,000 (2008), $80,000 (2007), which also lobbied</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">for National Association of Manufacturers (2009, 2008) and Americans for Affordable Climate</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Policy (2009), Edison Electric Institute (2009, 2008, 2007), Gas Processing Association (2009,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008) and the Foundation for Environment and Economic Progress (2009, 2008, 2007))</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Capitol Tax Partners, $30,000 (2009), $240,000 (2008), $220,000 (2007), which who also</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill is Chairman of the firm's Executive Committee. His practice focuses on environmental litigation, regulation and counseling, including climate change regulation and litigation, clean air regulation, environmental licensing and auditing, and waste management and clean water issues. Bill represents clients in both the United States and Europe. In the United States, his practice involves proceedings before federal and state agencies, courts and Congress; in Europe, it involves advice on European Community law.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill is a member of the American Bar Association and is AV® Peer Review Rated in Martindale-Hubbell. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Relevant Experience</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defends companies in suits seeking damages and injunctive relief for emissions of greenhouse gases. Representative cases include Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d 309 (2d Cir. 2009); Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, 585 F.3d 855 (5th Cir. 2009); and Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., No. C 08-1138 SBA, 2009 WL 3326113 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 30, 2009).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defends companies in environmental nuisance litigation. Representative cases include North Carolina v. Tennessee Valley Auth., 593 F. Supp. 2d 812 (W.D.N.C. 2009), appeal docketed, No. 09-1623 (4th Cir. June 2, 2009).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Serves as lead counsel in significant appellate cases challenging EPA and other rulemaking, including D.C. Circuit challenges to EPA's Clean Air Act New Source Review rules, revised air quality standards, and other regulations. Representative cases include Mississippi v. EPA, No. 08-1200 (D.C. Cir. filed May 23, 2008); New York v. EPA, No. 06-1148 (D.C. Cir. Sept. 4, 2009) (order granting unopposed motion for voluntary remand without vacatur); New York v. EPA, 443 F.3d 880 (D.C. Cir. 2006); New York v. U.S. EPA, 413 F.3d 3 (D.C. Cir. 2005); and Whitman v. Am. Trucking Ass'ns, 531 U.S. 457 (2001).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defends companies in EPA enforcement actions, including the Clean Air Act New Source Review enforcement initiative. Provides advice on responding to administrative orders, subpoenas and inspections. Representative cases include United States v. Duke Energy Corp., 278 F. Supp. 2d 619 (M.D.N.C. 2003), aff'd on other grounds, 411 F.3d 539 (4th Cir. 2005), vacated byEnvironmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., 549 U.S. 561 (2007); andTennessee Valley Auth. v. U.S. EPA, 278 F.3d 1184 (11th Cir. 2002).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advises companies on Clean Air Act permitting and compliance issues, and represents companies in related litigation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Hunton & Williams LLP practice under the Clean Air Act and other air quality laws is one of the most extensive in the nation. The firm's environmental team began its air quality regulatory practice shortly after enactment of the Clean Air Act of 1970. The practice expanded as we assisted clients during the legislative development and implementation of the 1977 and 1990 amendments to the Act.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For more than three decades, the firm's environmental lawyers have provided clients a full range of services under all of the Act's major programs, including representation in rulemakings and administrative proceedings, new and existing source permitting, appellate litigation, enforcement defense, and business transactions. In the United States, our air regulatory practice includes representation at the federal, state, and local levels. Our International and European Environmental Law Practice also addresses air regulatory issues arising outside the United States. Working with our Government Relations team, we advocate our clients' interests before the executive and legislative branches of government and regulatory agencies around the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm's clients on Clean Air Act and other air quality matters include most major industrial groups that are affected by air quality regulations, including electric utility companies (both as individuals and through trade associations), chemical manufacturers, pulp and paper companies, oil and gas companies, aluminum manufacturing, petroleum pipeline entities, coal companies, waste disposal concerns, road builders, liquefied gas storage and distribution companies, pharmaceutical companies, and various other manufacturers. We also represent groups of clients (including the Utility Air Regulatory Group) collectively in rulemakings and litigation under the Act on matters involving a wide range of public policy, regulatory, and administrative law issues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regulatory Practice</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams' environmental lawyers participate in all types of administrative proceedings and rulemakings arising under clean air laws. Our national experience includes representation in numerous Clean Air Act rulemakings, including those addressing development, review, and implementation of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS); control of new sources under the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), New Source Review (NSR), and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) programs; visibility impairment and Regional Haze; control of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) through technology-based MACT standards; regulation of motor vehicles, motor vehicle fuels, and fuel additives; development and implementation of market-based emission allowance trading programs, such as the Acid Rain Program and Federal NOx Budget Trading Program; transportation conformity and general conformity determinations; requirements for state and federal Title V Operating Permit Programs; and issues related to Tribal implementation of Clean Air Act programs. In rulemakings, our lawyers work both to make the rules the most reasonable possible and to create a complete record in the event of judicial review.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to national rulemakings, our air regulatory lawyers also have experience:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">participating on behalf of clients in EPA, state, and regional advisory committees and planning organizations on issues such as nonattainment, visibility impairment, and regional haze;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">assisting clients in commenting on agency guidance and policy on numerous air regulatory issues; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">participating in state, and local rulemakings and administrative proceedings.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our lawyers also represent clients on source- or company-specific issues related to development and implementation of rules, including:&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">preparing applications for waivers and variances from state and federal emission or opacity standards;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">preparing petitions for approval of alternatives or exceptions to applicable requirements, including emission monitoring and reporting;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">challenging EPA risk assessments and health effect studies used to set dose-effect relationships and reference doses; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">counseling clients on the multimedia impacts of air emissions including persistent bioacumulative toxics (PBTs) and eutrification of water bodies caused by nitrogen emissions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Compliance Counseling and Auditing</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Once rules are in place, Hunton & Williams' air lawyers help clients to understand and comply with applicable requirements. Building on experience gained through participation in rulemakings and defending enforcement actions, we also have experience:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">assisting clients in identifying and interpreting applicable permitting and regulatory requirements and counseling clients on what is necessary to comply;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">educating company officials regarding the standards for certifying compliance under various programs, such as Title V and the Acid Rain Program, and assisting in the development and implementation of internal programs to support those compliance certifications; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">assisting in design and performance of environmental audits and compliance assessments.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New and Existing Source Permitting</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some companies mistakenly view permitting as primarily presenting technical issues. Hunton & Williams' air lawyers regularly represent clients on a variety of legal issues associated with new and existing source permitting to avoid unnecessary requirements and to advocate permits terms that are clear, accurate, and reasonable. Specifically, we have experience:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">developing and implementing strategies for avoiding applicability of major New Sources Review (NSR);</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">counseling clients regarding preparation of PSD and NSR preconstruction permit applications, negotiating permit terms, preparing witnesses and material for public hearings, and litigating unfavorable permitting decisions;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">counseling clients regarding preparation of applications for Title V operating permits and permit revisions, and negotiating Title V and state permit conditions;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">assisting in development of Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) plans for inclusion in Title V permits;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">assisting in development of "case-by-case" MACT requirements under § 112; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">representing clients in appeals of air permits brought by citizen groups or other third parties.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Appellate Litigation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Challenges in the federal courts to EPA actions under the Act are frequent and raise issues important to companies' compliance obligations as well as to the development of the law. Hunton & Williams' air lawyers represent clients in many of these judicial proceedings, sometimes challenging EPA, sometimes supporting EPA against challenges from environmental groups, state governments, or others.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our lawyers have successfully represented clients in United States Court of Appeals challenges to both legislative and interpretive rules and have served as lead counsel in numerous multiparty challenges. Our list of representative cases is extensive, including many landmark cases involving Clean Air Act implementation and administrative law principles. &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although we have litigated many cases, not all of the appeals we file for our clients require judicial decisions. &nbsp;In many instances, our lawyers have been successful in negotiating settlements under which EPA has voluntarily revised regulations or policy or issued helpful interpretations or guidance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Enforcement</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams' air lawyers defend clients in enforcement actions brought by federal, state, and local agencies as well as in citizen suits. Our Clean Air Act defense experience includes:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">representation of electric utility, pulp & paper, and chemical manufacturing industries in defense of major federal enforcement actions alleging violations of New Source Review (NSR) permitting requirements;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">successful defense in a significant penalty case against a chemical company, resulting in a holding that regulated entities must be given fair notice of changes in agency interpretation or application of environmental standards;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">development of strategies and defenses for use in defending and avoiding enforcement based on federal or state rules on "credible evidence" or on "compliance certifications" made by company officials; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">numerous other representations in civil environmental enforcement and defense and defense of environmental crimes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Business Transactions</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Air regulatory issues may also arise in the context of business transactions. Moreover, with the increased use of market-based systems for controlling pollution, air regulatory issues may even trigger such transactions. Hunton & Williams transactional air lawyers have:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coordinated air quality aspects of due diligence investigations and advised investors, sellers, and buyers on air regulatory related risks;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">prosecuted and defended commercial indemnification claims between buyers and sellers of facilities based on costs associated with air quality compliance matters that arise or are discovered after sale;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">counseled clients regarding emission allowance transactions under market-based programs, like the Acid Rain Program and state and federal NOx Budget Trading Programs; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">counseled and litigated on behalf of clients on Clean Air Act transportation conformity and general conformity issues related to land development projects.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunton & Williams has one of the largest groups of lawyers in a single law firm representing clients on air quality matters. The examples above illustrate the breadth and variety of our air regulatory practice in dealing with national, local, and facility-specific issues. Our ability to combine knowledge, experience, and perspective regarding all aspects of air quality regulation, ranging from local to international levels, provides us with a truly unique air regulatory practice.</font></div><div>
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