by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Daily Caller
Well, isn’t this convenient? The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP), an organization launched by the left-wing Environmental Law Institute to “train” America’s judges in the dark art of climate alarmism – has quietly swept its tracks.
Where judges’ names were once found blithely endorsing CJP’s curriculum, now we find anonymous “participating judges” and sterilized public pages. The shame is palpable. If there’s any good news, it’s that CJP is finally embarrassed about its not-so-secret effort to brainwash the bench with climate junk science. The bad news is that the indoctrination marches on, just a little better disguised.
CJP’s entire strategy has been to infiltrate the judiciary with one-sided climate hysteria, dressing up advocacy as “neutral, objective education.” They’ve marshaled millions in funding from anti-energy foundations to host seminars, boot camps, and a listserv where at least 2,000 judges have, at last count, been treated to modules straight from climate activists’ playbooks.
Then, there’s the hypocrisy. The Left petulantly demands more transparency for Supreme Court justices – who, thanks to lifetime tenure, are beyond direct influence – yet remains curiously quiet about CJP’s efforts among state judges, many of whom serve in time-limited or elected roles and, let’s be blunt, are far more vulnerable to activist grooming.
