Following up on, e.g., this post, Government Accountability & Oversight has filed suit against the Maine Office of the Attorney General over Maine’s categorical denial of requests for records of obvious public interest, of the same and similar kind of those which have been routinely released by other states (either voluntarily or when forced by […]
Maryland Muni Climate Suits Tossed
As reported by the Washington Examiner, “MARYLAND JUDGE DISMISSES TWO CLIMATE LAWSUITS TARGETING CHEVRON: In a win for Big Oil, a judge has dismissed two climate lawsuits filed in Maryland against Chevron, BP, Shell, and more, saying federal law preempts state law claims against the oil companies. The details: The lawsuits, filed by the City of Annapolis […]
What Changed RFK Jr.’s Mind re: Prosecuting “Climate” Dissent?
Pace University’s law school has an Environmental Litigation Clinic, similar to a host of other activist operations providing donor-supported faculty and swarms of young lawyer-trainees for various left-wing environmental causes. Foremost among those causes is the climate litigation campaign. Several years ago, using Illinois’s Freedom of Information Act, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) obtained from the office of then-Attorney General Lisa […]