For Immediate Release: July 12, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. -- According to an internal U.S. Senate e-mail, as covered yesterday by the Daily Caller, today at 6:00 p.m. Senator Jeanne Shaheen is scheduled for her turn to take to the U.S. Senate floor as part of a major donor-driven campaign to attempt to [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A Democratic Senator will take to the chamber floor on Tuesday to attack a group that exposed her secret collaboration with environmentalist pressure groups in crafting official press statements. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) is scheduled to attack the Energy and Environment Legal Institute on the Senate floor on [...]
by Michael Bielawski VermontWatchdog.org A lawsuit against Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell over a refusal to deliver public records has prompted different reactions from the two candidates seeking to replace him... Sorrell is accused of withholding information about an effort by AGs United for Clean Power to investigate ExxonMobil and other groups for their views [...]
by Shikha Dalmia The Week Americans are so focused on the outrageous presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, we've largely missed one of the biggest political stories of 2016: the left's fearsome tactics to suppress its ideological opponents. Case in point: the liberal crusade to silence climate change dissenters... About 20 Democratic attorneys general have launched [...]
by Alex Newman New American There is even more bad news for the cabal of climate alarmists and crony capitalists hoping to abuse the legal system to silence dissenters. The rogue prosecutors behind the persecution of climate-change skeptics became embroiled in yet another scandal last week, this time getting caught conspiring to evade freedom of information laws to [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A Democrat-led coalition of attorneys general has entered into a confidentiality agreement to avoid disclosing public records related to their investigation into climate dissent, according to a document released Wednesday. The letter from an assistant for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she cannot comply with an open-records request on [...]
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 [...]
by Andrew Restuccia and Elana Schor Politico At least seven state attorneys general signed an agreement earlier this year to block public access to their internal communications about potential investigations into ExxonMobil's record on climate change. The AGs' pact, known as a "common interest agreement," stems from a daylong March 29 conference they attended that [...]
For Immediate Release: July 6, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 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 [...]
