October 2022 - Climate Litigation Watch

More on the Mysterious Email About Hollywood’s Backdoor Funding of Government Climate Litigation

UPDATED: The below version updates the post with the email, released in almost wholly-redacted part (see immediately below). This email reveals only that, yes, Anne Arundel County had some reason to mention Resources Legacy Fund in the context filing its own suit. But not what that reason was, i.e., whether the law firm had informed […]

DC Court Rules: No Power to Balance Interests, Congressional Use of Activist-‘Consultants’ Beyond Public Scrutiny

Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against award-winning journalist Rob Schilling’s effort to obtain records pertaining to a congressional committee’s “year long investigation” of private parties with the assistance of activist-consultants at least some of whom, donor websites boast, were provided for that very purpose. A purpose which, on […]

Congressional Climate Misinformation, Cont.

Last month, journalist Rob Schilling filed a Notice of Supplemental Authority with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in Schilling v. Speaker Pelosi, et al., a common law right of access lawsuit seeking records pertaining to the House Oversight Committee’s apparently unlawful (and non-ethical, per House rules) use of donor-provided outside consultants […]