The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has issued an Order allowing the transparency group Energy Policy Advocates to file its amicus brief, over Rhode Island’s opposition.
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That brief introduces some remarkable public records, including two independent sets of notes taken at a private meeting (of public officials, with activist donors), documenting a senior state official asserting that Rhode Island’s “climate nuisance” lawsuit against energy companies is in fact an effort to obtain a “sustainable funding stream” for spending ambitions, having failed to convince the legislature to fund its priorities.