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 U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General (AG) Claude Walker has withdrawn the subpoena he sent Exxon as part of his anti-racketeering investigation, and Massachusetts AG Maura [...]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 Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in FoxNews.com Seventeen attorneys general got more than they bargained for when they held a March 29, 2016 “publicity stunt” press conference to announce, with former Vice President Al Gore by their sides, a campaign to target opponents of the global warming agenda under racketeering laws. It [...]
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 [...]
For Immediate Release: June 13, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Forced to Sue Vermont Attorney General to Release Public Records Related to Conspiracy of AG's Seeking to Use RICO to Punish and Silence Climate Change 'Deniers' Washington, DC – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market [...]
by Thomas Richards Blasting News Washington state's Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) has a message for U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R): bugger off. At least when it comes to his state and its investigation of ExxonMobil over charges it tried to hide global warming from the public. Smith, who is the chairman of the House [...]
by Katie Grimes, Senior Media Fellow Freedom of the press protects the right to obtain and publish information or opinions without government censorship or fear of punishment, whether or not government finds the material offensive, or disagrees with it. Free speech enables people to obtain information from a diversity of sources, make decisions, and communicate [...]
For Immediate Release: May 13, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today the public came one big step closer to learning the truth behind how university professors launched “a national campaign" to have state attorneys general investigate and prosecute political opponents under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) -- investigations which [...]
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 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 [...]
