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 […]
Worst Appeals to Authority
Readers familiar with PJ O’Rourke’s classic travelogue “Ship of Fools” will find this offering from that redoubt of objective journalism, The Guardian, familiar, as it rushes to the defense of the Climate Judiciary Project campaign first exposed and explained at CLW (see summary post here). Specifically, the publication offers its own “what leftists?” gem in the form of […]
MA OAG Reverses Course on Climate Confidentiality Agreement
This is interesting. The Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General’s Opposition to Government Accountability & Oversight’s Discovery motion in an open records lawsuit is (belatedly, but that’s another story) due today. For its own reasons—it seems reasonable to conclude these reasons pertain to some discovery the AGO wanted to avoid about this document, and/or concluded […]