Government Accountability & Oversight
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 […]
Following on this Friday post, we see a little more ankle showing about the promiscuous interrelationships among law school faculty, the Center for Climate Integrity, the more than two dozen “climate” lawsuits against energy companies, aaand the Rockefellers (about which see also). “Keith” is Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, to whom Noble sent the legal memo […]
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 […]
With the foundation–financed yet still contingency-fee “climate nuisance” tort firm Sher Edling LLP having just made an appearance in Minnesota’s pursuit of energy companies — on motions of a Bloomberg SAAG, who carries some serious outstanding questions of her own, no less — two languishing state open records requests with MN OAG for certain of […]