“Social investing” campaigns include not only promotion of preferred investments but a determined effort to disable these investments’ competition. That darker flip side involves a “climate risk disclosure” industry. Players in this “CRD” movement include state attorneys general, comptrollers and treasurers, and lawmakers combining with public pension funds, interest groups and, of course, contingency-fee lawyers. [...]
E&E Legal knows a thing or two about New York shakedown schemes. Through our public records pursuits and subsequent lawsuits, we exposed an intricate scam consisting of green 'rent seekers,' willing public officials like New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his co-ringer leader, former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, big donors like Tom Steyer and ideological scolds [...]
by Erin Mundahl Inside Sources According to the hashtag, ExxonKnew, but what it knew and when has doubtless been more complicated than New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his supporters hoped when they first announced their lawsuit against ExxonMobil. This week, the tattered ExxonKnew campaign reached a significant milestone, turning two years old. Since [...]
Washington, D.C. – A study published by Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes has made clear that the investigations by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his "Green 20" coalition of state AGs — a scheme first exposed by E&E Legal in documents obtained under open records requests, and now the subject of multiple lawsuits over [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Counsel In the New York County Supreme Court in lower Manhattan, E&E Legal and several citizens groups recently discovered something remarkable: the New York Attorney General’s Office had corresponded with the scheduler for Tom Steyer, a democratic political donor, and Lee Wasserman, of the Rockefeller Family Fund, immediately prior to launching [...]
For Immediate Release: May 17, 2017 Contact: Chaim Mandelbaum [email protected] FME Law Plans to Appeal New York FOIL Decision Not to Allow Review of Records Shared Between NY AG, Tom Steyer, Rockefeller Interests, and other Top Donors and Activists Today, in litigation under New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Justice Manuel Mendez of the New York County Supreme [...]
by Seton Motley Heartland Institute New York Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is the hack-est of hacks. A Leftist ideologue to the point of derangement – and complete dereliction of his actual duty.Rather than looking after the legal needs of the residents of the Empire State, Schneiderman has spent much of his time tilting at [...]
by Seton Motley Redstate.com New York Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is the hack-est of hacks. A Leftist ideologue to the point of derangement – and complete dereliction of his actual duty. Rather than looking after the legal needs of the residents of the Empire State, Schneiderman has spent much of his time tilting at [...]
by Katie Brown, PhD The New York Post reports today that the Rockefellers and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman were apparently discussing the #ExxonKnew investigation several months before either the InsideClimate News (ICN) or Columbia School of Journalism #ExxonKnew pieces were published. This is quite telling given the Rockefeller’s role in funding and directing [...]
by Carl Campanile State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office was communicating with environmental activists nine months before he launched a securities-fraud investigation into Exxon tied to climate change, court records reveal. Documents show Schneiderman’s top staffers were in correspondence with Lee Wasserman of the Rockefeller Family Fund going back to February 2015. Schneiderman launched his [...]
