Government Accountability & Oversight
Lobbying Force Behind Climate Litigation, Punitive Taxes Wondering About Exposure Following up on New York’s $75 billion “Climate Superfund” tax on energy companies purportedly for causing climate change, sharply covered by the Wall Street Journal editorial board and noted by GAO here, we now know a few more things. First, the Rockefeller Family Fund certainly seems to have been behind […]
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 […]
Following up on this item, Government Accountability & Oversight has filed its opposition to the University of Michigan’s motion seeking summary dismissal of GAO’s FOIA suit in GAO v. Regents. It seems that Assistant Professor of Law Rachel Rothschild’s work to develop a “Climate Change Superfund” is at the same time both very specifically a focus of her work for […]
Following on CLW’s prior, quite revelatory discussions of the climate industry’s push to establish “attribution science” as a credible thing, we see this article walking through the theory’s intended use. Relevant thereto, CLW notes this memo that recently surfaced from a state attorney general’s office out West, written by a University of Michigan law professor whose focus includes, e.g., […]
This week New York City will host a five-day spectacle called “Climate Week”, with spillover in various cities including Washington, DC (Climate Week being about a political agenda). This annual affair begun in the first year of President Obama’s tenure coincides with the United Nations General Assembly session. This year, Secretary General António Guterres declared […]
