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 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 [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker agreed Wednesday to withdraw his climate-related subpoena of ExxonMobil, a stunning reversal that delivered a blow to the Democratic-led effort to prosecute climate change dissent. In the Joint Stipulation of Dismissal, Mr. Walker said he would pull his March 15 subpoena of the [...]
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 Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on May 9, the Obama administration had engaged in “bad faith” in its handling of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in Flash Report The announcement last week from PG&E that it was closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, rudely came on the same day there were rolling blackouts in Los Angeles amidst sweltering temperatures. [...]
