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 [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Democratic mega donor Tom Steyer is signaling he might be considering taking a crack at the White House in 2020, Politico reported Monday. The billionaire’s decision to pivot from discussing local and state politics in California to talking more broadly about American politics has prompted the media to report [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As Appearing in Inside Business Daily Billionaire Tom Steyer vowed to make climate change a major issue in the 2016 election. His plan was to link arms with the AFL-CIO to mobilize the Democratic base and recruit Millennial voters to rise up to defeat Donald Trump and put [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer’s enormous financial effort to prevent President-elect Donald Trump failed in epic fashion Tuesday. The Democratic megadonor spent more than $75 million on this year’s election, with most of his efforts going toward registering millennials to vote, mostly on environmental issues. His money didn’t seem to matter, because [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute A New York state judge has ordered Exxon and the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to turn over documents demanded by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D-NY) in his ongoing investigation of Exxon’s statements on climate change. The judge rejected Exxon’s claim Texas law protects accountant-client privilege, saying New York [...]
by Julie Kelly National Review Online The prognosis for a controversial cancer agency looks terminal. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) now faces congressional inquiries, legal challenges, and harsh criticism from the scientific community that are shredding the agency’s credibility and threatening its future. The Lyon, France–based group is an arm of the [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As appearing InsideSources One name surfaces again and again in WikiLeaks’ email to expose the corrosive influence of the Greens’ “rich uncle,” hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer. The eye-opening leaks show a pattern of Steyer wielding his fortune to bend Democratic politics in pursuit of his personal green [...]
by Jack Fitzpatrick October 31, 2016 A scientist involved in an international organization researching cancer offered his resignation in April because of uncertainty over whether its documents were subject to U.S. public records laws, according to emails obtained by Morning Consult. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has been under scrutiny since it published [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As appearing in RealClear Energy On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is subject to legal “discovery” by ExxonMobil. This turns the tables on the Attorney General (AG), who had demanded the company’s records as part of [...]
by Kate Kelland Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's cancer agency - which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens - advised academic experts on one of its review panels not to disclose documents they were asked to release under United States freedom of information laws. In a letter and an email seen [...]
