Media mogul, climate activist and financier of the climate litigation industry Michael Bloomberg recently announced his candidacy for President of the United States. At the same time, a memo leaked about Bloomberg News’s plans to cover the Presidential election (or, in part, to not cover it). As laid out in a WaPo headline: Bloomberg News will […]
More on the Climate Litigation Industry and Presidential Politics
Following on CLW’s post last month, “Presidential Politics and the Climate Litigation Industry“, the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes “Michael Bloomberg’s Minnesota Largesse preceded presidential bid”, noting Energy Policy Advocates’s open records suit to learn more about the relationship between the Minnesota Office of Attorney General, Bloomberg’s climate outfit and the trial bar.
As Paris Treaty Talks Kick Off, a Reminder of the Stakes
The 25th Conference of the Parties to the 1992 UNFCCC begins today in Madrid, seeking to add more details to what is by all historic factors a treaty for U.S. purposes. Our supposed models in Western Europe ratified Paris as a treaty under their systems, by their legislatures, while we played make believe that Paris […]