Within hours of Energy Policy Advocates filing suit against the Minnesota Office of Attorney General this morning (noted by Government Accountability & Oversight here), in part over a missing contract hiring an outside law firm to sue energy companies for climate change, the Minnesota Office of Management and Budget provided the group with the contract in […]
Month: January 2021
Court (Again) Orders Virginia AG to Answer FOIA Suit Seeking Bloomberg-related Records
At a hearing in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday — the third hearing in a (so far) two-and-a-quarter year saga to obtain records that previously did not exist but now magically do — the Office of the Virginia Attorney General was ordered to file an answer in a November 2018 VFOIA lawsuit by Government Accountability & […]
SCOTUS Hears Climate Nuisance Case
Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States hear oral argument in BP p.l.c. v Mayor and City of Baltimore, the first climate nuisance case to make it to the Court since the 2011 unanimous drubbing the plaintiffs took in AEP v. Connecticut (an 8-0 decision, with the majority opinion — written by then-Justice Ruth […]
Steve Coll
About: Steve Coll is an American journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and the current dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Coll authored the book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. Additionally, in 2004, he published the book, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From […]
BlackRock
About: BlackRock is a large investment firm based in New York City. Notable Connections:Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Rockefellers; Ceres Financials: In 2014, BlackRock started a fossil free fund, which is valued at about $291,146,041. The NRDC invested $66 million of its own money into BlackRock’s Fossil Free fund in 2015. Of Note: In […]