by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller New documents unearthed by a free market legal institute suggest a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general are using a “common interest agreement” to keep documents about their investigations into global warming skeptics from going public. “We have confirmed that the Democratic AGs are citing a Common Interest Agreement to [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Beacon A conservative legal group is accusing state Democratic officials of conspiring to flout public records laws in order to keep secret details of a campaign to bring racketeering charges against climate policy dissenters. Democratic attorneys general led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman are seeking to block efforts to obtain documents [...]
For Immediate Release: July 6, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 New Documents Confirm: “Climate RICO” AGs Attempting to Write Themselves Out of Transparency Laws to Hide Abusive Campaign Washington, DC – New responses from state Attorneys General offices (OAGs) obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller ExxonMobil fended off two of the investigations launched by liberal attorneys general into the oil giant’s alleged campaign to mislead the public on global warming. U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General (AG) Claude Walker has withdrawn the subpoena he sent Exxon as part of his anti-racketeering investigation, and Massachusetts AG Maura [...]
by Leslie Eastman Legal Insurrection Recently, I noted that climate change skeptics who also acted as their states’ attorneys general warned their environmental activist counterparts that plans were being made to “fight fire with fire.” Afterall, if the government’s environmental activists begin targeting businesses and private organizations under racketeering statutes for denying progressive environmental science [...]
by Michael Bielawski Vermont Watchdog MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont’s Attorney General is being sued for withholding public records related to a multi-state investigation of groups opposed to climate change policies. On Monday, two nonprofit legal centers filed a lawsuit to force Attorney General William Sorrell and Assistant Attorney General Scott Kline to turn over documents from [...]
by Craig Richardson, Executive Direcgtor On April 15, E&E Legal publicly released e-mails obtained through a public records request to the Attorney General of Vermont. The e-mails showed that the offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), and other politically-aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists in their investigations against groups whose [...]
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 [...]
