Government Accountability & Oversight
What We’ve Learned Re Climate Inquisitor, Bloomberg’s Top Recruiter AG Healey In previous posts, here and here, CLW noted the sudden reversal of the Massachusetts AG Maura Healey’s stonewall of a request to release her application to participate in the NYU State Impact Center’s fellowship program, and related records. The documents, now released, reveal that […]
Team Bloomberg “Doubles Down” on MA OAG As CLW previously noted, the prospect of defending plainly unlawful hiding of public records before a court caused the Attorney General of Massachusetts to think a little more clearly about its actions. Recently, it reversed course and released 309 pages of responsive records previously withheld in full, relating […]
Prospect of defending indefensible secrecy seems to have clarified OAG’s thinking Climate Litigation Watch readers are no doubt familiar with the secrecy surrounding Michael Bloomberg’s program to place privately hired, activist “Special Assistant Attorneys General”. His vehicle created for the purpose is a “State Impact Center”, housed at New York University. CLW has previously reported […]
Amended Complaint Filed Against Massachusetts Attorney General After ‘Massachusetts Miracle’ CLW has reported that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office took in a January 2016 slide show from tort lawyer Matt Pawa titled “What Exxon Knew”, recruiting “a single sympathetic attorney general” to investigate the target of his tort litigation and start subpoenaing records; then […]
