by John Siciliano The Washington Examiner A conservative group says it has uncovered a "scandalous" connection among billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer, the Democratic Party and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who wants to run for governor. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute said Wednesday it uncovered new documents that add to questions [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Deep-pocketed environmental groups have spent more than $3.3 million in the last week to support Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s election bid and attack Republican opponent Donald Trump. NextGen Climate Action spent more than $1.4 million since Sept. 8 attacking Trump’s candidacy, mainly through a sizable digital advertising campaign, according [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer compared himself to David in a David and Goliath-like fight against wealthy conservative groups working to influence climate policy issues. “I see this as a David and Goliath situation, Steyer, who earned his billions as a hedge fund manager, said in an interview on This [...]
For Immediate Release: September 14, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – Documents released today by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) add to questions raised over the weekend with the release of correspondence showing New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s recruitment of eco-billionaire Tom Steyer to support his run for governor. These [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has gotten nearly $264,000 in campaign donations from monied individuals with ties to lawyers and environmentalists backing the Democratic prosecutor’s global warming investigation. Schneiderman, who’s been investigating whether or not ExxonMobil misled shareholders and the public about global warming, has gotten campaign contributions [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller The New York attorney general engaging in a highly publicized probe into oil producer ExxonMobil solicited meetings from an influential billionaire Democratic donor, according to emails obtained Monday by the New York Post. Four months after announcing the Exxon investigation, Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tried to finagle meetings [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor In July, E&E Legal issued an extensive report, Buying the Democrat Party Lock, Stock, and Barrel, that details among other things that activist billionaire Tom Steyer is using the Democratic Party to push his self-serving carbon-free energy agenda in the political arena. A short video accompanied the report. Although Steyer is the number [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states’ attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the [...]
For Immediate Release: August 4, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 State AG ‘Secrecy Pact’ Aimed at Thwarting Transparency Laws Released; E&E Legal Obtains Document From DC Following Litigation Washington D.C. -The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has obtained a copy of the purported “Common Interest Agreement” led by New York’s Attorney General [...]
by Alatheia Nielsen MRC News Buster When Democrats unveiled their new party platform at the DNC, it read like the mission statement from Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate PAC. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute first identified the similarities in a July 25 report, calling them “policy plagiarism.” The report also called Tom Steyer “the most [...]
