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“Attribution” Expose’

CLW has focused on the climate litigation complex’s recent project—made to order by and for the plaintiff’s bar—of attribution science. You can find the various entries here. Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. has a devastating expose’ of the enterprise, specifically the federal leviathan’s contributions to the climate industry, titled “Attribution Stealth Advocacy at the NAS.” Yes, these are […]

More on Climate Litigation Oversight

CLW readers may recall this post from a year ago almost to the day, about Congress investigating the climate litigation industry that seeks, inter alia, a “sustainable funding stream” to finance politicians’ spending ambitions without getting caught directly raising taxes. That represented something of a table-turning, with congressional oversight bodies having been enlisted on behalf […]

MA OAG Reverses Course on Climate Confidentiality Agreement

This is interesting. The Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General’s Opposition to Government Accountability & Oversight’s Discovery motion in an open records lawsuit is (belatedly, but that’s another story) due today. For its own reasons—it seems reasonable to conclude these reasons pertain to some discovery the AGO wanted to avoid about this document, and/or concluded […]

Climate Litigation Industry Update

A project called the American Energy Institute has managed to break through and draw media attention to a troubling collaboration, the details of which CLW has revealed here over the past three-plus years, between plaintiffs’ lawyers, progressive donors and members of the federal and state judiciaries. That is the “Climate Judiciary Project” of the Environmental Law Institute. CLW has […]

NJ Climate-suit Contract Emerges

At long last the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has released to Government Accountability & Oversight its retainer and “contingency” fee agreement with outside climate-plaintiffs law firm Sher Edling to file the Garden State’s entry in the climate sweepstakes. As noted here, earlier this summer a court ordered the Office to do so, but it apparently was considering and […]