Government Accountability & Oversight
From Energy in Depth: BY SPENCER WALRATH In recent years, attorneys general in the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland and a handful of other states have sought to burnish their climate credentials by pursuing investigations and litigation against oil companies. In some cases, they have welcomed outside support through a controversial, Michael Bloomberg-funded law […]
New productions from the City of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, below, shed further light on the climate litigation industry’s recruiting process, first revealed in two recent stories based on records obtained by Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO), “Emails Show Law Firm Pitching Miami on Climate Lawsuit” and “Law Firm Pitching Suits Sought to Evade Detection […]
The attached document obtained under public records laws represents a contract between San Francisco City and County and the plaintiffs’ law firms Sher Edling LLP and Altshuler Berzon LLP. The former of those firms, other public records also obtained by Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., show, is actively recruiting cities to file suit against energy […]
The California-based law firm Sher Edling pitched the idea of a municipal lawsuit against major energy producers to top officials within the city of Miami that would seek to extract compensation from oil companies for present and future damages due to the effects of climate change, according to emails obtained through open records requests. The new documents […]