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GAO Asks Court to Compel New Mexico AG to Stop Stonewalling in Discovery, Provide Answers to Questions About Work with Activists and Activist AGs
EPA reveals AGO’s claim that records are shielded by “pending litigation,” secrecy pact directly contradicted by New York Attorney General claim to WSJ Albuquerque, NM, December 8, 2020 – The public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) and local counsel Pat Rogers have filed a Motion to Compel answers in litigation discovery against a stonewalling New Mexico…
What Did Minnesota AG Ellison Know About “SAAGs” Work With Outside Activists & When Did He Know It?
GAO Attorney Files Third Lawsuit against Minnesota AG Ellison Over Refusal to Release Records re Bloomberg-Funded “Special Assistant AG” Disclosures, Work with Pressure Group What did AG Ellison Know about Bloomberg “SAAG” relationships and when did he know it? MARSHALL, MN – Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO), filed a public records lawsuit in Minnesota state…
Bicoastal Climate Elites: Rumored Biden EPA Pick Got a 2nd Home Because of…Climate Week
The Washington Post ran an item, “Perspective: Biden is building a team that looks like the people it serves”. Author Steven Miller pithily replied, “Undeniably true headline but certainly not the way they intended it.” Exhibit A: Mary Nichols — the head of California’s Air Resources Board and rumored top-three pick for a Biden EPA Administrator — apparently was moved to…
Massachusetts AG Tells Bloomberg Group of Plan to Use its Attorneys to Enforce Paris Climate Treaty
Miracle “Not a Treaty” Paris Climate Deal Apparently to be Subject of Law Enforcement Pursuits It was one thing when, academics being academics, some immediately invoked President Obama’s purported unilateral ratification of the Paris climate agreement as reason to compel imposition — indeed, judicial commandeering — of the “climate”/energy suppression agenda through federal policy. (This was because “The Paris Agreement reflects…
NEW RECORDS LAWSUIT Re: Climate Plan by AGs, Greens for “Biggest ‘Sue-and-Settle’ in History”
New Open Records Lawsuit seeks unredacted AG documents from outside parties relating to “sue-and-settle” scheme AGs can’t get story straight; telling Wall Street Journal one thing, everyone else (including courts) something else New revelation follows WSJ story, GAO elaboration GAO Files Lawsuit Against Oregon AG for Refusing to Release Emails, Memos from Activists, former EPA Attorneys about Plan to Sue…
EXPOSED: Return of Sue-and-Settle: State AGs, DC Swamp Preparing Biggest End-Run in History — “Green New Deal” with No Legislation, No Rulemaking Process, Just a Sweetheart Consent Decree
Activists who came up with plan now on Biden EPA transition team As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a trail of emails between progressive state attorneys generals (AG) offices and former Obama-Biden and career Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials – obtained over nine months by Energy Policy Advocates’ dogged public record requests – reveal a plan to use the courts…
SCOTUS Brief Reveals Tort Bar, Attorneys General Coordination Pact for Nationwide Flood of ‘Purely Local’ “Climate Nuisance” Litigation
Bloomberg-provided Attorneys Insist to Courts “Climate” Suits are Local, Not Effort at National Policymaking; Documents Show These Attorneys Were Provided to AGs to Work on “Matters of National Importance” Brief Reveals for First Time an AGs, Tort Bar Pact to Coordinate on “Local” Climate Nuisance Lawsuits WASHINGTON, D.C., November 23, 2020 – The transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (“EPA”) today…
CHASER: No “Swamp” to See Here — EPA Quietly Hires ‘Climate RICO’ Ringleader as “Career” Enforcer
Can’t Spell The Swamp Without E-P-A Following up on this gem posted earlier, the topic of properly using — or misusing — law enforcement powers is one of great interest to GAO, which also runs ClimateLitigationWatch.org. The importance of the issue has become increasingly obvious in the past, say, four years. It became more topical still with the announcement of…
SHOT: Top Senate Environment Committee Democrat Wants Career EPA Attorneys to Lead
Prepare for the chaser…
RELEASE: Court Denies Request to End State Dept. Stonewall on Documents Behind Obama Evasion of Senate “Advice & Consent” for “most ambitious climate agreement in history”
As Biden vows immediate re-entry into climate pact, State has stopped processing critical FOIA request; Plaintiff argued to Court that next 60 days present the sole opportunity for public to debate the question whether Paris was in fact legally “entered” by Obama/Biden’s Pen-and-a-Phone Strategy Court Nonetheless Urges State to Release Three Remaining Documents by October 15 WASHINGTON, D.C. – This…
Pebble Mine & the Donor/Academy/Tort Bar Axis: EMail Exposes Faculty Coordination to Aid Donor Lobbying
The below image is from a recent document production in Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. v. Board of Regents, an open records suit confronting UCLA Law School’s role in the advocacy industry, specifically through its Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment. It is an email thread among the Institute’s Andrew Sabin Chaired professor Cara Horowitz and Andrew Sabin,…
RELEASE: GAO Asks Court to Force State Dept. to Stop Stonewalling on Paris Climate Treaty
As Biden vows immediate re-entry into climate pact, State stops processing FOIA request: litigation seeks to reveal whether Memo asserting false premise for “disturbing contempt” of skirting Senate ‘advice & consent’ is genuine; “major political and legal scandal” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late Monday night, the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a motion asking the…
“Just Transition”: Hiding the Climate-Agenda Confession of “Substantial Job Losses” in Plain Sight
Someone’s focus coetus is showing. Right on time with the European Union’s agonizing over how many billions to spend in a “Just Transition Fund” to help balm the self-harm of the job-killing “green deal”, we see U.S. climate activists deploying the same euphemism for equivalent harms here. What does “Just Transition” means among friends? “Substantial job losses from the movement…
New Records Suit Filed Against Massachusetts AG Over Refusal to Release Records re Coordination with Tort Bar, Academics in Investigating Opponents
BOSTON, MA – Last week, Timothy Cornell of Cornell Dolan, P.C., filed suit against Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey under the Commonwealth’s public records law on behalf of the nonprofit transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA). This suit seeks to compel the AG to reveal details about the use of law enforcement to advance private interests, its own coordination with…
Daily Caller Covers GAO Suit vs. Minnesota AG Ellison
From the Daily Caller: Read the article here.
GAO Files Second Lawsuit against Minnesota AG Ellison Over Refusal to Release Records re Bloomberg-Funded “Special Assistant AGs”, Tort Bar, Secrecy Pacts
Complaint reveals existence of AG efforts to contract away public’s rights under records act; agreement to share information with “climate” tort bar that also recruited OAG to file suit ST. PAUL, MN – For the second time in recent months, the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison under…
Update on Recent Open Records Litigation
Audrey Russo had GAO attorney Chris Horner on her show to discuss developments in the group’s efforts to educate the public on how law enforcement, and other public institutions, are being used to advance an agenda pushed by private interests.
GAO’s Climate Litigation Watch in the News
The Washington Times’ story on climate litigation and Michael Bloomberg’s underwriting of state attorney general lawfare closes with a hat tip to GAO’s project, CLW:
GAO Attorneys File Suit Against New Mexico AG for Hiding Secrecy Pacts, Work with Climate Activists
Energy Policy Advocates reveals one of AGO’s secrecy pacts attempting to contract away the public’s right to see public records, how institutions being used Albuquerque, NM, June 15, 2020 – Today, public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA),…