Government Accountability & Oversight
On the heels of documents discussed here, here and here (source documents here and here, h/t Energy Policy Advocates), CLW has perused further public records detailing just how Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison came to sue energy companies in his bid to join the climate litigation lottery and find “new streams of revenue.” For the […]
Paper trail puts the lie to MN AG Ellison’s Office denial it is using privately hired attorneys Well this is interesting. Courtesy of Legal Newsline, we see the remarkable claim by Minnesota’s Office of the Attorney General that it has not in fact brought in privately hired attorneys. This was in response to a question […]
On the heels of recent posts (as well as old) about collaboration by law school faculty with the Rockefeller Family Fund to promote activists’ and the tort bar’s “climate” agenda, Energy Policy Advocates has obtained emails showing the litigation industry’s courtship of another state attorney general, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, to the sweepstakes of “going after climate denialism with a bunch of […]
The Office of Minnesota’s AG Keith Ellison provides a remarkable example of the network behind the epidemic of climate litigation — “going after climate denialism with a bunch of state and local prosecutors nationwide,” as one academic put it in an infamous email, reminding us as well of the role of activist-donor funded law school […]
Courtesy of Energy Policy Advocates, we see the plaintiff’s “climate nuisance” law firm Sher Edling, LLP was toiling on behalf of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison surprisingly early, working the media to roll out Ellison’s lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and others (covered by CLW here). Here we see the firm’s […]