It ain’t the stork. Following on this blockbuster revelation, the New York Attorney General abruptly changed course, having first helpfully waved a big flag that it was hiding something that must look very, very bad. This is the redacted (wait what?) June release of a Lee Wasserman/Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) email to NYAG asking it […]
All the Climate Contracts We Cannot See
Add the District of Columbia to the jurisdictions that will not release contracts for filing ‘contingency fee’ climate lawsuits which— the public record provides more than ample reason to conclude— are already being privately financed. As GAO’s request makes clear in this instance, there’s not only no good reason for this but it runs contrary […]
Amicus Brief Details Climate Litigation Campaign’s Political Origins
Newly obtained records withheld for seven years reveal NYAG attorneys abandoned misgivings about pre-packaged “subpoena suggestion” after months of activists’ climate-lawsuit lobbying “[M]aybe he can come to see that he’s wrong” met “Please do know that I want to find a way on this as much as you do”, and politics carried the day This week, […]