Government Accountability & Oversight
Can’t tell your crusading AGs, tort lawyers, and activists without a scorecard! CLW readers may want this keepsake souvenir “Face-book” from the secret pre-briefing of state attorneys general by the activist/tort bar team, moments before the now infamous March 2016 Manhattan press conference launching “The Climate-Change Lawsuit Debacle“. The courts took note of this event […]
Newly Obtained Email Shows NAAG Role in Activist Recruitment for #ExxonKnew Investigations NAAG served as conduit for plaintiffs bar to select “sympathetic AGs” CLW admits it has not before seen the below document. An informal survey of parties who presumably would have seen it — had it been sent to all “Energy and Environment Bureau […]
CLW recently revealed that when “Maryland AG Brian Frosh took a meeting with one of his constituents — Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica” (Politico), this was not a very useful description of the gathering. We now know what was reported as constituent service was in fact another in a series of presentations of […]
Amended Complaint Filed Against Massachusetts Attorney General After ‘Massachusetts Miracle’ CLW has reported that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office took in a January 2016 slide show from tort lawyer Matt Pawa titled “What Exxon Knew”, recruiting “a single sympathetic attorney general” to investigate the target of his tort litigation and start subpoenaing records; then […]
In May 2016, Politico reported: MORE GREEN OUTREACH AHEAD OF EXXON PRESSER: Shortly before joining a coalition of Democratic attorneys general to criticize ExxonMobil’s stance on climate research, Maryland AG Brian Frosh took a meeting with one of his constituents — Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica. In November 2015, Pica offered to brief […]
