Government Accountability & Oversight
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 […]
Information in the public domain has in recent years revealed that fiduciaries of the public fisc have been granting a law firm extremely lucrative “contingency fee” (or contingency-ish) contracts to file “climate” lawsuits on behalf of governmental subdivisions—even though the firm is shown in FOIA’d emails and IRS filings to be the recipient of what is now […]
Argument before federal appeals court panel examines whether public can see correspondence pertaining to donor-provided ‘staff’ to drive investigation of political opponents in aid of outside interests CLW readers are familiar with Schilling v. Speaker, the common law right of access lawsuit seeking records about the sordid affair of House Oversight Committee Chair Maloney and […]
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, […]
Video of litigation pitch adds to evidence that lawsuits seek dough to pay for pols’ pet projects CLW readers will remember the admission — reflected in two independent sets of notes taken at a meeting at the Rockefeller family mansion at Pocantico — that governmental “climate” litigation is not actually about “combatting climate change” but is […]