Government Accountability & Oversight
On the same day the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an important, related case, with local counsel Tim Cornell of Cornell Dolan, P.C., the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a motion with the Suffolk County Superior Court seeking summary judgment against Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s Office (OAG), for […]
The San Jose Mercury News has run a rather remarkable piece by Ed Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, and Amanda Millstein, co-founder of Climate Health Now, titled “Demanding moral clarity from Stanford on fossil fuels.” There may have been better moments to appeal to the authority of […]
Energy in Depth has an item on a Tuesday ruling by a federal judge in Boston allowing Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s climate prosecution of ExxonMobil to proceed in state court, where she filed it, rather than the federal system. It was the specifics of the argument that reminded EID of the New York AG’s […]
Energy in Depth has an amusing summary here of how the Climate Trial of the Century was nothing to see, oh look squirrel… An excerpt: [A]as trial proceeded, and it became clear that the NYAG had zero evidence to back up its baseless claims that ExxonMobil had misled its investors, its activist allies abandoned the […]
These past two weeks CLW has documented how, just weeks her office took in a slide show presentation titled “What Exxon Knew” from a plaintiffs’ attorney touring OAGs looking for “a single sympathetic attorney general” to help out his flagging litigation campaign against the energy industry, Massachusetts’ AG Maura Healey announced an investigation into — […]