by April McCullum Burlington Free Press A lawyer at the Vermont Attorney General's Office is claiming a broad exemption from transparency laws to defend the denial of a public records request. Chief Assistant Attorney General William Griffin argued in court last month that work at the Attorney General's Office generally is exempt from state public-records laws, unlike [...]
by Anne Galloway VT Digger A national conservative group has taken the Vermont Attorney General’s office to court over allegations that state officials have blocked release of public records for political reasons. The Energy and Environment Legal Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., has sued over communications between the attorneys general of Vermont and [...]
by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow This week marks the one-year anniversary of nearly two dozen state attorneys general, alongside “green” investor and former vice president Al Gore, announcing a coalition to investigate, as fraud, opposition to the climate change political agenda. Since that blustery event, however, all signs are that ringleader New York Attorney [...]
by Julia Marsh New York Post State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is trying to hide e-mails about his support of a climate-change policy that’s being targeted by President Trump, a conservative group charged in Manhattan court Tuesday. The organization, E&E Legal, sued Schneiderman last year claiming he led a group of AGs in silencing climate-change [...]
by Hannah Hess E&E News ...Today marks one year since Schneiderman joined former Vice President Al Gore and a coalition of state attorneys general to announce a multistate effort to tackle climate change, including further investigations into whether fossil fuel companies lied to investors and the public about the impacts of global warming (Greenwire, March [...]
by Alex Newman The New American An unfathomably wealthy banking and oil dynasty has been hijacking governments, media organs, universities, non-profits, and other power centers to expand its control over the economy and the energy sector in particular, according to a recently released investigation by a watchdog group. That dynasty, of course, is the Rockefeller [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states banded together in a political crusade to “investigate” and threaten to prosecute those who disagree with their climate change agenda, E&E Legal decided to pull back the curtains to expose what the states were really looking for, and what might have spurred these investigations, [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times aA court has ordered New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to turn over documents related to a multistate confidentiality agreement on climate change investigations. New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Henry F. Zwack ruled that Mr. Schneiderman has 30 days to comply with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s May 5 request [...]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, ”a federal judge in Texas has issued a discovery order against the Massachusetts attorney general in the hotly-contested investigation about whether the oil giant concealed information about climate change from investors and the public." The court based its opinion on information E&E Legal [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute Mathematician and software engineer Leonid Goldstein filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on September 12, 2016, against what he says is a “climate alarmism enterprise” (CAE). The alleged CAE consists of more then 40 environmental groups, green investment funds, and [...]
