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 [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged the Justice Department (DOJ) has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look into whether climate skeptics’ denial of the theory humans are causing dangerous climate change merits prosecution for fraud.. Lynch’s admission of the Justice Department’s investigation came in response to a [...]
by Tribune-Review The question of collusion, supposedly by climate-change “deniers” and industry “exploiters,” is more appropriately directed to the Democrat attorneys general in their United for Clean Power campaign. Emails reveal that prior to the AGs' announced initiative, they received briefings from environmental activists... So while some state AGs demand that ExxonMobil come clean on [...]
by Margaret Price The Federalist Society The twenty Democratic AGs' (“Green 20”) concerted investigation against ExxonMobil (Exxon) and organizations deemed “climate change deniers” represents a threat to core constitutional commands of free speech, limited and constitutional government and the rule of law. This latest incarnation of regulation by litigation which seeks to punish climate change [...]
by New York Post Editorial Board New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and other state AGs are probing ExxonMobil — but maybe they’re the ones who should be investigated. E-mails obtained by a free-market think tank (the Energy & Environment Legal Institute) show Schneiderman & Co. colluded with two activists last month just before the [...]
by Rich Lowry National Review Online It’s not easy to make one of the world’s biggest fossil-fuel companies a sympathetic victim, but a collection of state attorneys general, led by Eric Schneiderman of New York, has managed it. They have launched a campaign against Exxon Mobil that is a transparent — nay, an explicit — [...]
by Sean Higgins Washington Examiner A recently revealed email exchange shows that the New York Attorney General's Office tried to keep secret the role an activist lawyer played in helping to start a multi-state effort to prosecute energy companies for deceiving investors on the risks of climate change. The email was part of a series [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Democratic attorneys general met behind the scenes with environmental activists during a meeting to discuss ways to go after oil giant ExxonMobil for allegedly misleading the public about global warming. And then they tried to cover it up... “These emails show Schneiderman’s office suggested their outside-activist green allies deceive the press; meanwhile, AGs [...]
