Government Accountability & Oversight
More Institutions Enlisted in Climate Litigation March, Hint at Possible Climate “Criminal Litigation” Judicial Briefings beginning in 2019 Seemingly Prompted by 2018 Federal Court Setbacks Move to ‘Fact-Block’ What Judges Hear on “Climate” Reminiscent of Social Media’s “Fact-Checkers” Campaign Energy Policy Advocates’s website reveals a recent Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of […]
Today, the government-transparency group Energy Policy Advocates filed a petition and proposed brief in support of certiorari in the State of Rhode Island’s “climate nuisance” case which, as the brief notes, subtly shifted its focus after filing — and after “nuisance” claims were dealt further defeats in federal courts — to emphasizing alleged consumer fraud. […]
As SCOTUS hearing in City of Baltimore nears, documents old and new raise serious doubts about plaintiffs’ claims The United States Supreme Court will hear Mayor and City of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c., next Tuesday, the first case in an epidemic of coordinated climate litigation to make it to the Court. While this “climate nuisance” […]
Lead attorney admitted arranging for study in YouTube speech The City of Charleston, SC and State of Delaware have filed similar ‘climate nuisance’ lawsuits against differing if somewhat overlapping populations of energy and related interests. These are the latest salvos in the climate litigation industry’s nationwide campaign to extract settlements modeled on the tobacco settlement. […]
The City of Hoboken, New Jersey, is the latest entrant in the “climate nuisance” litigation campaign chronicled here at CLW. The complaint can be found here. Signs were piling up that some New Jersey plaintiff or plaintiffs were preparing to enter the fray, with advocates for the climate litigation industry making the rounds and a […]