On the heels of a string of losses for the climate litigation industry, most recently today, and following up on this jaw-dropping move by the taxpayer-financed National Academies of Science to give an assist to a project already festooned with red flags—the plaintiff (counsel)-ordered “attribution science” (see also here)—CLW happened upon this. Take a quick […]
Hill Investigations
Over to You, Oversight
CLW readers are aware of the capture of the Federal Judicial Center by the ‘climate’ plaintiffs’ bar. FJC is by chance a creature of Congress. So is the National Academy of Science, which has also now joined up to assist the climate litigation industry. After all, what issue has been better for taxpayer-financed science, such […]
More on Climate Litigation Oversight
CLW readers may recall this post from a year ago almost to the day, about Congress investigating the climate litigation industry that seeks, inter alia, a “sustainable funding stream” to finance politicians’ spending ambitions without getting caught directly raising taxes. That represented something of a table-turning, with congressional oversight bodies having been enlisted on behalf […]
DC Circuit Rules in Records Case re Donor-staffed ‘Climate’ Investigation
Today the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling and opinion in Schilling v. Speaker, a lawsuit filed citing the under the Common Law Right of Access to record as detailed, e.g., here, about the use by House Oversight Committee and its subcommittee Chair Ro Khanna of ‘staff’ provided by outside activist donors to […]
‘Sheldon has not been well managed’
CLW sees this paper just published by the Senate, ah, Budget Committee picking up the mantle of the donor-staffed (in violation of House Ethics Rules) House Oversight Committee investigation into energy companies daring to resist brigandage. CLW spotted this own-goal right up front. Hey, that phrase sounds familiar. CLW recalls a set of handwritten notes […]