Government Accountability & Oversight
These email records… …from UCLA Law School suggest that the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Peter Frumhoff is on the inside of the climate tort industry and its litigation campaign. CLW readers recall it was from a UCS event led by Frumhoff — the “Secret Meeting at Harvard” — that UCLA faculty member Cara Horowitz emailed the school’s […]
CLW readers know about Government Accountability & Oversight’s (GAO) Public Records Act litigation against UCLA Law School, filed on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. This involves records of two faculty, including professor Ann Carlson, both a consultant to the climate litigation industry and a media go-to for ostensibly neutral (if reliably admiring) assessment of […]
Climate Litigation Watch readers are aware of the September 2018 CEI report, “Law Enforcement for Rent”, which explored in detail what public records show about the “Secret Meeting at Harvard”. This April 2016 session hosted by Harvard Law School and the Union of Concerned Scientists was first hinted at in email productions from state attorneys […]
By Chris Horner CLW readers recall Oregon State University’s (and State Climatologist) Phil Mote writing not once but twice about a “secret meeting at Harvard” at which he presented, along with other academics, activists and plaintiffs lawyers advancing their case for “potential state causes of action against major carbon producers.” Earlier open records litigation had […]
