The Washington Free Beacon reports: “The Department of Justice quietly weighed in on litigation pending before the Supreme Court this week, siding with liberal cities and states that are seeking to force the nation’s largest oil companies to pay billions of dollars in damages for global warming. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed briefs this week […]
Is Hawai’i County Looking to Ride the Wave?
Another “Sustainable funding stream“ Own-Goal: “I see that [climate litigation] as another source of funding” The most recent entrant in the ‘climate’ sweepstakes—which takes the form of filing another in the ‘wave’ of lawsuits against energy companies— emerged just before the Thanksgiving holiday courtesy of the Maine Attorney General. These suits are typically, as in […]
Over to You, Oversight
CLW readers are aware of the capture of the Federal Judicial Center by the ‘climate’ plaintiffs’ bar. FJC is by chance a creature of Congress. So is the National Academy of Science, which has also now joined up to assist the climate litigation industry. After all, what issue has been better for taxpayer-financed science, such […]