The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources has sent an oversight letter — its second — to the green pressure group the World Resources Institute, exposed earlier this year as also being a pass=through contractor for providing donor-financed staff for elected officials. The Committee seek further information regarding the role WRI played in […]
Illinois AG: “No records” showing it actually considered legality, ethics of Bloomberg-financed Climate Prosecutor
On September 21, 2017, Illinois’ AG applied for a privately funded special prosecutor for environment and climate, to pursue matters of concern to the donor Michael Bloomberg. This application states, inter alia: The Illinois Attorney General’ s Office has the authority to hire an NYU Fellow as a Special Assistant Attorney General. We do not […]
Virginia AG: “No records” showing it actually considered legality, ethics of Bloomberg-financed Climate Prosecutor
The Virginia Office of Attorney General has responded to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) that OAG has “no records” on which it based its claims to possessing the legal authority to bring on board a Bloomberg-funded special prosecutor for climate, that this posed no gift prohibitions, and that OAG faced no Virginia-specific impediments to such […]