Month: May 2020

AG caught unlawfully using fees as barrier to access public records; tripled demand after coordinating with other AG offices under ‘Get Out of FOIA Free’ pacts; suit asks for sanctions  LANSING, MI, May 28, 2020  – Yesterday, on behalf of the transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (“EPA”), the public interest law firm Government Accountability & […]

Pact Hints at Other Dealmaking With Cooperative Automakers Thanks to the transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (“EPA”), CLW has seen records of state attorneys general canoodling with “certain automakers” on a “CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT REGARDING THE SHARING OF INFORMATION IN JOINT DEFENSE OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION STANDARDS FOR VEHICLES AND ENGINES.” This is among an absolute […]

Yesterday a panel of 9th Circuit judges allowed City of Oakland et al. v BP PLC et al. to continue in state courts, as opposed to having this effort to effectively create federal policy to be heard by the federal courts. As CLW has previously noted in reply to a similar move in Colorado, the […]

CLW previously informed readers that newly released records shed further light on the dangerous deployment of law enforcement to advance private ends, at the request of private parties. Reviewing the request, and a transcript from The People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil — which discussion prompted the request and proved these […]

The long and sordid history of the New York OAG’s disastrous prosecution of ExxonMobil for alleged climate crimes, gamely replicated by Massachusetts AG Maura Healey in Massachusetts as the New York case disintegrated in court, is well-chronicled here at CLW.  As is the more recent push to obtain records sealed during that first action. At […]