Government Accountability & Oversight
Some months ago it occurred to CLW that none among the various secrecy pacts that had emerged among “climate” state attorneys general purported to cover the new breed of state attorney general lawsuits against energy companies, prioritizing claims of consumer deception over the original claims of public nuisance and investor fraud which had stumbled in the courtroom. […]
You likely have heard that the Supreme Court reached the right decision today in BP plc et al. v. City of Baltimore. That opinion concerns a mildly weedy procedural mater (whether the 4th Cir. erred in holding that it lacked the power to consider all of the defendants’ grounds for removal), but a critical one given the circumstances, and an opinion which should help in removing these cases […]
Energy Policy Advocates issued the following statement to CLW: The Supreme Court’s opinion this morning in Mayor and City of Baltimore v. BP plc et al., serves as another reminder of the importance of the state vs federal jurisdictional issue in the wave of “climate” litigation washing over state courthouses around the country. All of these […]
The Vermont Office of the Attorney General has filed an opposition to Energy Policy Advocates’ request, in an open records lawsuit, to inform the Washington County Superior Court about public records released by other states. Vermont’s AG apparently thinks these are too sensitive for Green Mountain State taxpayers to know about. It also doesn’t think […]
Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush… CLW is scratching its head trying to square this signed agreement, released in litigation brought by Energy Policy Advocates …with this boast by an environmental activist …who, it turns out, still serves on the advisory board of a (different) climate activist group with the very same Bloomberg-hired […]