December 2024 - Climate Litigation Watch

Family Feud: New York

Any Price is Right when soothing the guilt of inherited wealth and privilege With the climate litigation campaign facing a possible reckoning by the United States Supreme Court, last week came the news of New York State’s extraterritorial money grab, a Climate Superfund. This is the Plan C (or is it D?) of the climate-industrial complex to impose more taxes […]

“Foreign Litigation Funding, an Enforcement Priority”

And speaking of this litigation campaign just supported by the Biden-Harris administration on the way out… we were intrigued to see this item from the law firm Morrison and Foerster, titled “FARA Unit Takes Aim at Foreign Litigation Funding and Commercial Exemption”. This comes on the heels of even more revelations about foreign financing of […]

They Are Who We Thought They Were

The Washington Free Beacon reports: “The Department of Justice quietly weighed in on litigation pending before the Supreme Court this week, siding with liberal cities and states that are seeking to force the nation’s largest oil companies to pay billions of dollars in damages for global warming. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed briefs this week […]

Is Hawai’i County Looking to Ride the Wave?

Another “Sustainable funding stream“ Own-Goal: “I see that [climate litigation] as another source of funding” The most recent entrant in the ‘climate’ sweepstakes—which takes the form of filing another in the ‘wave’ of lawsuits against energy companies— emerged just before the Thanksgiving holiday courtesy of the Maine Attorney General. These suits are typically, as in […]