Government Accountability & Oversight
Both from today: CLW understands the PR mavens have been working several news outlets overtime to get these stories, indispensable chairs in the symphony of climate alarm scheduled to bracket the upcoming, first #ExxonKnew trial. However, to the climate industry’s apparent despair, it won’t be much of a climate trial but instead has devolved into […]
Energy in Depth provides a useful update on the history of the “attribution” push by the climate litigation industry. The internally acknowledged weaknesses of these years of “attribution” claims are much greater than CLW readers presently know. We do now know the origin of the most recent claims, a paper that has predictably sent some […]
There was a conference this past weekend on attributing severe weather events to individual defendants in litigation, attended by Andrew Montford of Bishop-Hill blog (author of several climate books, The Hockey Stick Illusion and Hiding the Decline). As CLW previously wrote about attribution: Several media outlets are in the process of helping out with “attribution” […]
ClimateWire has a piece out today, “D.C.’s top lawyer could launch Exxon battle soon”. In it, Bloomberg- and CREW-underwritten activist AG for the District of Columbia Karl Racine hints, “”look out for developments in the fall” on a highly anticipated legal challenge by the nation’s capital against Exxon Mobil Corp. and other leading fossil fuel […]
Last week, CLW informed its readers that Connecticut Attorney General William Tong had released his “NYU Law Fellow Application” to the transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA). As CLW readers know, these applications were in fact responses to a request for proposals by a group created by billionaire party donor and climate activist Michael Bloomberg, […]
