Government Accountability & Oversight
In September California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined the climate litigation cavalcade seeking to pay for green new deal goodies without openly raising taxes. It was a funny lawsuit: Gov. Gavin Newsom flew to New York City to announce it to a “Climate Week” audience more receptive than constituents suffering under punishing gasoline prices. Bonta […]
Courtesy of the transparency-in-government group Energy Policy Advocates, CLW sees this selection from a University of Hawaii Law School document production, pertaining to that institution playing its part to support the climate litigation industry. Nicely capturing the machinations are the emails showing how the imported event, imported media coverage — and even imported oped published […]
“At CCI we really do focus on supporting municipalities and states [rather than businesses] bringing cases to support all of the different facets within the state, and what they support… With one caveat I will mention here. One of the cases that has been filed that we do support was brought by a fishermen’s association […]
Courtesy of Energy Policy Advocates, CLW readers can find a representative selection of services provided to elected officials who join in to push the “Center for Climate Integrity’s” agenda — which agenda includes, most notoriously, politicians filing privately-financed “climate” lawsuits against political opponents — here. Interesting exemplars include those addressing how the advocacy group prefers […]
CLW previously posted about the “Center for Climate Integrity” (CCI) getting caught ghost-co-writing a memo on University of Minnesota Law School stationery (yes, a no-no) to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison setting forth the lawsuit Ellison would ultimately bring against energy companies, filed by attorneys provided to him for the purpose by a Michael Bloomberg […]