Government Accountability & Oversight
We knew we would get to this point, as after all it was going to come out in any trial. But as CLW has chronicled, the fashionable new claim of “attribution science” is now openly acknowledged to be a project in support of the campaign seeking a “sustainable funding stream“. That, of course, would be […]
Pace University’s law school has an Environmental Litigation Clinic, similar to a host of other activist operations providing donor-supported faculty and swarms of young lawyer-trainees for various left-wing environmental causes. Foremost among those causes is the climate litigation campaign. Several years ago, using Illinois’s Freedom of Information Act, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) obtained from the office of then-Attorney General Lisa […]
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 […]
It ain’t the stork. Following on this blockbuster revelation, the New York Attorney General abruptly changed course, having first helpfully waved a big flag that it was hiding something that must look very, very bad. This is the redacted (wait what?) June release of a Lee Wasserman/Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) email to NYAG asking it […]
Newly obtained records withheld for seven years reveal NYAG attorneys abandoned misgivings about pre-packaged “subpoena suggestion” after months of activists’ climate-lawsuit lobbying “[M]aybe he can come to see that he’s wrong” met “Please do know that I want to find a way on this as much as you do”, and politics carried the day This week, […]