October 2021 - Climate Litigation Watch

House Climate Show Trial to Support Biden’s Looming Pen-and-Phone Promises to Other Countries?

Show Trial increasingly looks to be move to pave the way for Biden climate promises at weekend G20 Summit + Glasgow “COP” beginning Monday There are more and more indications that Thursday’s House Oversight hearing, initially scheduled as an opportunity to berate the defendants in the floundering climate litigation industry, is not only intended to assist the plaintiffs […]

Prepare to Be Judged

CLW readers may recall the effort by the plaintiffs’ climate tort movement, unearthed by Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO) and Energy Policy Advocates (EPA), to brief federal judges on the plaintiffs’ case. New public records from the Department of Energy in FOIA litigation brought by EPA shed further light on this. Here is a summary opening a window into […]

Timely Court Filings Detail Climate Litigation Industry, Origins

CLW readers may have noticed the media cycle has subtly begun for next week’s House Oversight Committee climate change show-trial, as energy crises unfold worldwide and President Biden prepares to take 13 Cabinet members and no grants of legislative authority from Congress supporting his “climate” agenda to the annual “Conference of the Parties” in Glasgow […]

Well, Well, Well: Enron Knew

Climate industries, both political and legal, are premised on claims that the “fossil fuel” energy industry “knew” of catastrophic man-made global warming since the 1970s, 1980s…  It is the subject of an “academic” speaker series, pastand upcoming Hill hearings and a massive, clearly coordinated media campaign aimed at promoting climate policy and especially litigation. The marketing claim is that “Exxon Knew”, […]