Government Accountability & Oversight
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 […]
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 […]
None other than the “lawyers advising the Rockefeller family fund” — as the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) is known among its colleagues in the climate litigation industry — announced on social media Tuesday that New Jersey has become the latest state to file the lawsuits CCI is revealed to have pitched to governments. CLW […]
After initial revelations raised tax, ethical questions, charitable foundation lists ‘contingency fee’ tort firm as both gift recipient and “highest compensated independent contractor” for nearly $5 million just in 2020 Is the total from a single pass-through now $7.6 million, or a mere $5.2 million for first four years of suits? ‘What did these politicians […]
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 […]