by Valerie Richardson Washington Times House Republicans this week launched an investigation into the 17 attorneys general pursuing fraud allegations against climate change skeptics, citing concerns about the campaign’s impact on free speech and scientific inquiry. “Americans are entitled to express their views on matters of science and public policy even if certain groups disagree,” [...]
by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine E-mails uncovered by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) show several state attorneys general (AGs) who have threatened possible prosecution of climate skeptics had collaborated in previous months with anti-fossil-fuel lobbyists to shape their legal and public relations strategies. At a [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Emails released as part of a lawsuit against a George Mason University climate scientist show environmental activists had been working behind the scenes to “hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable” for their stances on global warming long before stories were published bashing ExxonMobil’s climate stance... Frumhoff’s email to Shukla was [...]
by Gayathri Vaidyanathan E&E reporter Some advocacy groups see a wrinkle in using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to prosecute corporations that have allegedly misrepresented climate science in the past, according to private emails of climate scientists. The emails were released Friday by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of think tanks, businesses and consumer groups, and individual researchers in his widening probe of organizations that have written skeptically about purported human-caused climate change and policies proposed and implemented to fight it. His efforts are a witch hunt, [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Beacon The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely described as an effort to silence political opponents. In a subpoena issued in March, the office of USVI attorney general Claude Walker [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, David Schnare, general counsel of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, joins H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the collusion between state attorney’s general and radical environmental groups. Schnare talks about some of the work being done at the Energy & Environment [...]
by Paul Driessen, Senior Policy Adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) As appearing in Townhall.com Have you ever wondered how the LA Times, Associated Press, Weather Channel and your local media always seem to present similar one-sided stories on climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy and other environmental issues? How their assertions [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute In the Climate Change Weekly released April 5 (CCW 209), I discussed the press conference held by a group of state attorneys general (AG), led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, threatening investigations and possible prosecutions of climate skeptics for speaking their mind. Just days after I wrote that [...]
by Bruce Parker VermontWatchdog.org Vermont has joined a multi-state working group following a climate change meeting of state attorneys general last month, but details about the newly formed group are being kept from the public... The first action to come out of that meeting took place on April 12, when coalition members held a conference call to launch [...]
