Government Accountability & Oversight
The long and sordid history of the New York OAG’s disastrous prosecution of ExxonMobil for alleged climate crimes, gamely replicated by Massachusetts AG Maura Healey in Massachusetts as the New York case disintegrated in court, is well-chronicled here at CLW. As is the more recent push to obtain records sealed during that first action. At […]
In case you missed it, the State of Rhode Island’s private attorneys at Sher Edling LLP responded last week to Energy Policy Advocates’ Amicus brief in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. As CLW and other outlets have pointed out, public records obtained by the transparency group Energy Policy Advocates strongly suggest that the State of Rhode Island […]
Read the full release here: GAO Files Suit against Maryland AG Frosh for Hiding Records re Coordination with Tort Bar, Bloomberg-funded “Special Prosecutor” Outfit Today, on behalf of the nonprofit group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA) the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against the Maryland Office of Attorney General (OAG) under […]
Energy Policy Advocates and Rob Schilling previously filed a motion to intervene in the New York Attorney General’s case against ExxonMobil, which ended in a “debacle” for the activist NY AG (for three of them, in fact…). Their purpose is the limited one of unsealing certain records showing OAG’s relationship with the plaintiff’s tort lawyer […]
New Emails obtained in AG open records litigation affirm: plaintiff’s lawyer who recruited NY OAG to investigate his litigation target was not “whistleblower”, docs aren’t privileged NEW YORK, NY – On Friday, an attorney for the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a motion to intervene in the New York Attorney […]