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., […]
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Movement in Mass. AG Open Records Case
CLW sees this story posted today, about the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office bringing the noted “contingency fee” law firm Sher Edling on board its climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil. A few days earlier, in Energy Policy Advocates v. Healey, a Suffolk County Superior Court ordered the MA AG to answer interrogatories seeking details of the emails […]
GAO Sues Multnomah County for Improperly Withholding Record of Litigation Coordination with Activists
Following on the closing note here, GAO has filed suit under Oregon’s Public records law for correspondence containing the email domain of a group that appears to have been instrumental in the County punching its ticket in the climate litigation sweepstakes, @climateintegrity.org. For a walk-through of how this group works you can see an amicus […]
Originality Befitting an Ivy League President
CLW is not alone in noticing an awful lot of familiar verbiage popping up in climate lawsuits filed in different jurisdictions with different laws, different plaintiffs, and even different lawyers. There was the amusing episode in which artifact language from Minnesota’s June 24, 2020 turned up in the District of Columbia’s lawsuit filed the next […]
California Schemin’
In September California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined the climate litigation cavalcade seeking to pay for green new deal goodies without openly raising taxes. It was a funny lawsuit: Gov. Gavin Newsom flew to New York City to announce it to a “Climate Week” audience more receptive than constituents suffering under punishing gasoline prices. Bonta […]