In the tradition of all great civil disobedience that paved the way for such brave displays, and securing their place as Truly The Greatest Generation, schoolchildren today will daringly accept their teachers’ encouragement to skip school and promote a fashionable cause. To fully appreciate the moment, CLW thought it worth revisiting the genesis of these […]
Month: September 2019
Governors’ “Alliance” Climate Week Memo: Managing “Stage Time”
The past two weeks, CLW has posted background and records relating to the ethereal yet lavishly funded “United States Climate Alliance”, a donor project to underwrite activist governors’ climate advocacy with an army of off-books ‘staff’ and consultants. After a beauty contest, Ted Turner’s United Nations Foundation got the gig to serve as the key […]
Minnesota AG releases Application for Bloomberg-Funded “Special Prosecutor”, Touting His Pursuit of #ExxonKnew: What is Bloomberg’s 1st AG Recruiter, Maryland AG Frosh Hiding?
Last week, CLW informed its readers that Connecticut Attorney General William Tong had released his “NYU Law Fellow Application” to the transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA). As CLW readers know, these applications were in fact responses to a request for proposals by a group created by billionaire party donor and climate activist Michael Bloomberg, […]
Memo Reveals Role of Climate Industry Players: Arabella Advisors and New Venture Fund
Previously, CLW noted the involvement of Arabella Advisors and its various constituent parts and clients in the climate industry, including the lavishly financed New Venture Fund (NVF). Both entities turned up in the public-record correspondence laying out the “United States Climate Alliance’s” creation [sic; the group doesn’t appear to exist]. That informal association of activist […]
Confused Sen. Kamala Harris and “Partisan Probes”
Sen. Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general, recently“found herself in hot water after getting caught telling a fib about her history with ExxonMobil.” Specifically, she claimed that she had sued the company as part of the #ExxonKnew campaign by plaintiffs’ lawyers and activist attorneys general looking for settlements in the hundreds of billions of dollars […]