Government Accountability & Oversight
The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center was funded by Michael Bloomberg as a vehicle for hiring and planting “Special Assistant Attorneys General” (SAAGs) in AG offices “to advance the agenda represented by” the group. That meant funding, coordinating, and providing media cover for AGs to push their scheme to go after opponents of the climate […]
Media mogul, climate activist and financier of the climate litigation industry Michael Bloomberg recently announced his candidacy for President of the United States. At the same time, a memo leaked about Bloomberg News’s plans to cover the Presidential election (or, in part, to not cover it). As laid out in a WaPo headline: Bloomberg News will […]
Recent news reports of electoral aspirations possibly held by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg prompts CLW to consider the political influence the man already clearly possesses among statewide elected officials, who he will need if the reports of his ambitions are true. To recap, Mr. Bloomberg easily seduced over a dozen top law enforcement officials […]
CLW recently revealed that when “Maryland AG Brian Frosh took a meeting with one of his constituents — Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica” (Politico), this was not a very useful description of the gathering. We now know what was reported as constituent service was in fact another in a series of presentations of […]
In May 2016, Politico reported: MORE GREEN OUTREACH AHEAD OF EXXON PRESSER: Shortly before joining a coalition of Democratic attorneys general to criticize ExxonMobil’s stance on climate research, Maryland AG Brian Frosh took a meeting with one of his constituents — Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica. In November 2015, Pica offered to brief […]
