Competitive Enterprise Institute v. Podesta

The court ordered the parties to meet and confer and file joint status report. As of March 5, 2025, the parties were still filing status reports in this case.

The federal district court for the District of Columbia dismissed the President’s Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation (John Podesta) and the National Climate Task Force from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by Competitive Enterprise Institute. The lawsuit sought to compel disclosure of information about the Task Force’s first meeting and certain communications involving the Task Force and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of the Secretary of Commerce (which were also defendants), as well as other agencies. The court held that Podesta and the Task Force were not “agencies” subject to FOIA.