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 […]
No One Expects the Climate Equity & Climate Justice Inquisition
Alvin Bragg at it again? Curious FOIL denial on heels of recently released details of now-Manhattan DA’s involvement in activists’ enlistment of NY OAG to use Martin Act to investigate political opponents as climate criminals What GAO sought, now in suit in New York What’s there that you can’t see