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.
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.