Government Accountability & Oversight
Add the District of Columbia to the jurisdictions that will not release contracts for filing ‘contingency fee’ climate lawsuits which— the public record provides more than ample reason to conclude— are already being privately financed. As GAO’s request makes clear in this instance, there’s not only no good reason for this but it runs contrary […]
The New Jersey Attorney General has filed its privilege log with the court, in Government Accountability & Oversight’s OPRA suit seeking OAJ’s contract with the law firm behind most governmental “climate” lawsuits, Sher Edling LLP. As the cover letter indicates, OAG has also filed its contracts under seal for the court to review. That is […]
CLW readers will recognize the themes set forth in this letter, sent today by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Ranking Senate Commerce Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz and reported first here. While addressed to a law firm engaged by numerous progressive elected officials—to which these politicians promised so many millions out of their […]
Fact check: False! CLW is grateful for the persistent watchdog role that Energy Policy Advocates has played obtaining public records to shed light on the climate litigation industry. Now we see an “unlisted” YouTube video recently obtained by EPA from a New Jersey municipality being recruited by the Rockefeller Family Fund vehicle called the “Center for Climate […]
UPDATED: The below version updates the post with the email, released in almost wholly-redacted part (see immediately below). This email reveals only that, yes, Anne Arundel County had some reason to mention Resources Legacy Fund in the context filing its own suit. But not what that reason was, i.e., whether the law firm had informed […]