CLW has chronicled how the “State Energy & Environmental Impact Center” was created by activist billionaire Michael Bloomberg for the purpose of placing privately hired, activist attorneys in state AG offices as “Special Assistant Attorneys General” to pursue issues of concern to Bloomberg. As CLW has also chronicled, Bloomberg first awarded two “SAAGs” to the […]
Capture, Regulators and the Campaign to Restrict Energy Industry Access to Capital
C. Boyden Gray’s recent WSJ column,“Banks’ Boycott Is an Antitrust Problem” rings a bell with CLW. As one might imagine, the pressure campaign on lenders participate in “an effort to starve oil and gas [and coal] companies of capital”, runs deeper than what we see on the surface. The details also are uglier than even […]
Boulder Official: Climate Litigation is Tool to Make Industry Bend a Knee
h/t Energy Policy Advocates for the following acknowledgement by a Boulder City official, from early on in this second wave of “climate nuisance” litigation, about the objective. Here again we see its practitioners conceding that “nuisance” litigation is a tool to force the targeted industries to sue for peace, by agreeing to lobby for legislative […]