by John Siciliano Washington Examiner A pact among Democratic state attorneys general investigating Exxon Mobil's climate change strategy may have been crumbling from its start, the free-market group Energy & Environment Legal Institute said Friday, disclosing new emails showing evidence that the coalition is weakening. The E&E Legal Institute said it obtained new emails that [...]
For Immediate Release: September 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. — Newly released emails from two different states and obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) offer further insight into the collapsed support for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s ever-shifting #ExxonKnew investigation. These records suggesting that the AGs United for Clean Power coalition [...]
For Immediate Release: September 22, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. — Newly released emails from two different states and obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) offer further insight into the collapsed support for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s ever-shifting #ExxonKnew investigation. These records suggesting that the AGs United for Clean Power coalition [...]
On September 16, E&E Legal's Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner discussed the ongoing scandal involving several Attorneys General and their attempt to shut down climate change dissent on Audrey Russo's REELTalk radio program.
by Christopher Matthews Wall Street Journal On first blush, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s probe into Exxon MobilCorp.’s accounting practices raises some questions. For instance, why is the top cop in New York investigating the Texas-based company’s financial disclosures, a job more commonly handled by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission? But Mr. Schneiderman [...]
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. - Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) will once again be forced to file suit against a "Climate RICO" state attorney general's office for its role in a political coalition using law enforcement powers to silence opposition to the "climate" agenda. This most recent [...]
by John Siciliano The Washington Examiner A conservative group says it has uncovered a "scandalous" connection among billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer, the Democratic Party and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who wants to run for governor. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute said Wednesday it uncovered new documents that add to questions [...]
by Jeff Stier The Observer With his latest plan to punish even thoughts and speech related to climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has raised the eyebrows of even his fellow climate-change activist Democrat attorneys general (AG). Officials from a number of state AG offices expressed anxiety about Schneiderman’s controversial plan to investigate [...]
by David McLaughlin E&E Legal Strategic Research Supervisor Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states’ attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute With other state attorneys general ultimately failing to support New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s investigation of Exxon for its past climate research, the New York Post reports Schneiderman is shifting the focus of his (illegal) legal assault... Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (EELI) [...]