No, Bloomberg’s Center and AGs Didn’t Cut it Out. They Just Clammed Up CLW readers will recall how billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg’s “State Impact Center” promiscuously shot off press releases boasting of this or that eager state AG agreeing to participate in a scheme placing private attorneys in their offices, to pursue matters of […]
Month: July 2019
Emails suggest @UCUSA Union of Concerned Scientists is at the Center of the Climate Litigation Industry
These email records… …from UCLA Law School suggest that the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Peter Frumhoff is on the inside of the climate tort industry and its litigation campaign. CLW readers recall it was from a UCS event led by Frumhoff — the “Secret Meeting at Harvard” — that UCLA faculty member Cara Horowitz emailed the school’s […]
“Climate Nuisance” Plaintiff Stays in State Court
A federal judge has allowed “climate nuisance” plaintiff Rhode Island to proceed in state court in its tort bar-led effort to obtain “help paying for” climate change. Specifically, Chief Judge William Smith from the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island yesterday returned the state’s climate nuisance case to state court. Smith opened […]
NEPA as ‘Climate’ Litigation Weapon May Stop More Resource Production
From E&E News (subscription required): A federal judge last week issued a stern warning to land regulators from the Interior Department as they aim to bolster climate analyses for a set of Western oil and gas leases. While Judge Rudolph Contreras for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declined requests by environmentalists […]
9th Circuit to Hear 2 ‘Climate Nuisance” Appeals
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has agreed to hear (via E&E News, subscription required) appeals of two cases before the same panel, on the same date. San Francisco, Oakland and other California governments are seeking damages they claim energy companies owe them from climate change. Some municipalities had opposed the motion to […]