Groups concealed by the government have raked in $25 million in legal
fees from federal agencies through lawsuits under three environmental
laws since 2009, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis found. The Department of Treasury’s Judgment Fund database
tracks how much federal agencies have paid out for lawsuits and court
settlements, but doesn’t track the names of the individuals or groups
that are actually suing the government. More than $49 million in taxpayer funds was paid to lawyers suing the
Obama administration under three major environmental statutes, TheDCNF
found. Environmental activists have gotten millions from taxpayers suing
the government to expand federal regulation. “It’s no surprise the Treasury Department is hiding who gets the
money in these transactions,” Adam Andrzejewski, Founder and CEO of
transparency group. OpenTheBooks.com, told TheDCNF. “Because these suits
involve the federal government, taxpayers have a right to know where
their tax dollars are going and what agendas they’re advancing.” The administration paid out more than $25 million to attorneys and
firms that were either listed as “unnamed” or “redacted” from 2009 to
2015. Nearly $630,000 was paid out to groups where some of the
plaintiff’s attorneys were listed but others were redacted. The $49 million was paid out to groups under 512 so-called “citizen
lawsuits” – lawsuits filed under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act
or the Endangered Species Act, TheDCNF previously reported...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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