Government Accountability & Oversight
Courtesy of the indispensable transparency-in-government group Energy Policy Advocates, the New Jersey Borough of Bradley Beach has released some relevant public records under the state’s OPRA. These include a recruiting and advocacy toolkit for aspiring governmental “climate” plaintiffs provided by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) — boasting of its “partners in law, science and […]
City is plaintiff in campaign recently confirmed to be grab for “sustainable funding stream” Today, the nonprofit governmental transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA) filed an open records lawsuit against the City of Annapolis,Municipal climate suits Maryland. The suit seeks to compel the City to release documents shedding light on its participation in an activist-driven litigation […]
Energy Policy Advocates filed a friend of the court brief in the Mayor & City of Baltimore climate nuisance case, after it was sent back to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from the United States Supreme Court. Key points illuminated for the Court include (footnoted citations and links omitted): * […]
You likely have heard that the Supreme Court reached the right decision today in BP plc et al. v. City of Baltimore. That opinion concerns a mildly weedy procedural mater (whether the 4th Cir. erred in holding that it lacked the power to consider all of the defendants’ grounds for removal), but a critical one given the circumstances, and an opinion which should help in removing these cases […]
The Center for Climate Integrity turns up again in public records, again recruiting governmental subdivisions to file “climate” tort litigation against the climate activists’ opponents. It’s a two-fer, use the courts to try and advance an agenda and offer politicians and bureaucrats the prospect of what one called a “sustainable funding stream“. This time it […]