This week the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office released its “NYU Law Fellow Application”. 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 to place privately hired activist attorneys as “Special Assistant Attorneys General”. These “SAAGs” are […]
Month: September 2019
Emails Reveal Role Michael Bloomberg’s Climate Crusaders Are Playing In Maryland’s AG Office
From the Daily Caller Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s legal fellows are likely too closely connected to the billionaire’s climate change crusading group, new emails show. Analyst Chris Horner tells the Daily Caller News Foundation that the emails reveal how Maryland is “outsourcing” law enforcement activities to “activist donors.” The emails apparently contradict what the Bloomberg-financed climate group has said […]
WSJ’s Strassel Touches on Key Climate Industry Players: Public records elaborate further
Last Friday, Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel wrote about “The Left’s Lucrative Nonprofits”. This included was a brief exploration of Arabella Advisors. Strassel wrote: Dark, powerful money? The left has a monopoly here, too, via the creation of a new “sponsor” model. Take Arabella Advisers, also the subject of a Capital Research Center report. […]
Longtime MD OAG Prosecutor converts to one Bloomberg-funded position, then another: Documents further undermine claim that “SAAGs” are independent of Bloomberg group
Longtime Maryland OAG attorney John B. “J.B.” Howard is one of three Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant AGs” pushing the climate agenda that AG Brian Frosh has quietly brought into his Office. These positions are filled with hires made by Bloomberg’s State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (Bloomberg group, or “the Center”). Public records show that Mr. […]
More Federal Policy Cases Passed to State Judges
Yesterday Federal District Court Judge William Martinez remanded back to state court a “climate nuisance” suit by the City of Boulder and Counties of Boulder and San Miguel against Suncor and ExxonMobil. This remand, along with similar cases in California, Maryland, and Rhode Island, effectively places federal energy and environmental policy — rightfully the purview […]