Government Accountability & Oversight
Journalist Rob Schilling filed an amended complaint today in his common law right of access lawsuit against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, other senior House officers, the House itself and its Committee on Oversight & Reform. Schilling seeks emails and other records pertaining to the Committee’s use of donor-provided consultants to help guide an […]
Who is Alexandra Klass? President Biden has quietly brought in at least the second member of the “climate” litigation industry into his administration in senior legal positions. Both are academics found to have been using their position at a public university to assist the climate lawsuits. This time it’s a University of Minnesota Law School […]
GAO prevails in suit seeking records to educate on how public institutions come to be used, with whom: Academics involved in “going after climate denialism along with a bunch of state and local prosecutors,” Biden Administration lawyer also tied to judicial briefings on plaintiffs’ climate tort arguments The Superior Court of California for the County […]
CLW readers may recall the effort by the plaintiffs’ climate tort movement, unearthed by Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO) and Energy Policy Advocates (EPA), to brief federal judges on the plaintiffs’ case. New public records from the Department of Energy in FOIA litigation brought by EPA shed further light on this. Here is a summary opening a window into […]
More Institutions Enlisted in Climate Litigation March, Hint at Possible Climate “Criminal Litigation” Judicial Briefings beginning in 2019 Seemingly Prompted by 2018 Federal Court Setbacks Move to ‘Fact-Block’ What Judges Hear on “Climate” Reminiscent of Social Media’s “Fact-Checkers” Campaign Energy Policy Advocates’s website reveals a recent Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of […]