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Money & Power: New FOIA’d Documents Offer Ugly Candor About “Green Energy”
Recently, excerpts from notes taken at a meeting at the Rockefeller family mansion between activists, donors and political appointees emerged. They contain further revelations, beyond those first reported. These notes quote numerous, high-ranking political appointees from state government making quite clear that the costly lessons of scandalous Obama-era parade of high-profile and costly green energy boondoggles changed nothing. “Green energy”…
GAO In The News: Real Clear Energy — “New FOIA’d Documents Offer Ugly Candor About ‘Green Energy'”
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GAO In The News: Candidate Bloomberg’s Group, Tort Bar, Greens Push Michigan AG to Sue Energy Companies
From The Washington Times: Read more and see the documents at Climate Litigation Watch.
Court Filing Maps Climate Tort Campaign for Court, Reveals Previously Unknown Coordination
Energy Policy Advocates and Rob Schilling previously filed a motion to intervene in the New York Attorney General’s case against ExxonMobil, which ended in a “debacle” for the activist NY AG (for three of them, in fact…). Their purpose is the limited one of unsealing certain records showing OAG’s relationship with the plaintiff’s tort lawyer Matt Pawa, who a major…
“A BATTLE OF INTERFERENCE: NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL SEEKS TO BLOCK GROUP’S EFFORT TO INTERVENE”
From Energy in Depth: Transparency in the Public Interest According to the group’s website, EPA’s purpose is to “bring transparency to the realm of energy and environmental policy.” Their memo replying to the attorney general’s opposition (they refer to the attorney general by the acronym “OAG”) explains that they are acting in accordance with that mission: “OAG has failed…
GAO Files Suit Against Washington Attorney General
Seeks Release of Memos Relating to “Climate Change” Plaintiffs’ Tort Campaign Cites Unfolding Revelations of Tort Lawyer Influence on Attorneys General, AG Ferguson’s Practice of Improperly Withholding Non-Privileged Information, and New Records OLYMPIA, WA – On Wednesday, the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a Public Records Act (PRA) lawsuit against Washington State Attorney General…
Political Frenemies: Rockefeller Mansion Meeting Exposes Trouble in Paradise
From Real Clear Energy: One state official from the Mountain West voiced the obvious concern among his team “to be careful about keeping” members of his political party [“Ds”] in office. That is not always easy given friends like theirs. According to New Mexico’s [Energy Secretary Sarah Cottrell] Propst, the climate activist officials’ green group NGO allies — called NGOs,…
Rockefeller Meeting Notes, Cont…: The Delicate Balance Between Imposing “Substantial Job Losses” and “Keeping Ds in Office”
From Real Clear Energy, and following up this post: One state official from the Mountain West voiced the obvious concern among his team “to be careful about keeping” members of his political party in office. Hat-tip Nevada’s David Bobzien or Bradley Crowell.
Rockefeller Mansion Notes: Dem Energy Poohbahhs think Ernie Moniz Has Been a Bad Boy
From RCE: The notes indicate that former Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is not being helpful, saying mildly favorable things about natural gas: “Ernie Moniz saying gas is a bridge fuel.” Meaning, gas as a replacement for coal while renewable energy continues its struggle to become reliable and economic. Climate activist politicians attempt this straddle with some regularity. But it…
More from Rockefeller Mansion Notes: Energy Secretary Says Energy Boom is “the problem”
More from GAO Board Member Chris Horner’s piece in Real Clear Energy: The tension is further exposed in New Mexico’s Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Minerals, & Natural Resources Department, diagnosing the “problem,” which is the state’s booming oil & gas production. Per the notes, Sarah Cottrell Propst bemoans the “problem is oil production in Permian [is] 1.5b/month in commerce, 400%…
Notes From Meeting at Rockefeller Mansion Shed Light on Climate Politics: Confessions about Job-Killing “Climate” Agenda
GAO Board Member Chris Horner has a piece in Real Clear Energy unveiling the findings of a series of Energy Policy Advocates’ public records requests. GAO will post some of the eye-openers. In order: The handwritten notes, taken by Carla Frisch of RBF-beneficiary and meeting sherpa Rocky Mountain Institute, are particularly clarifying. The Chief Policy Advisor to New Jersey Gov.…
GAO files lawsuit over Paris Accord “not a treaty” Obama shenanigans
PRESS RELEASE: November 4, 2019 8:00 AM Citing Newly Obtained Paris Climate Treaty Memo, GAO Files Suit against State Dept. Seeking Obama Administration Documents As President Trump prepares to formally withdraw from Paris a newly obtained Memorandum of Law, if genuine, represents “major political and legal scandal”, “unlawful entry” to treaty WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the public interest law firm…
New Mexico reaps rewards of fossil-fuel boom while pushing climate change agenda
Emails show state officials attend Rockefeller Brothers Fund conference on phasing out natural gas By Valerie Richardson- The Washington Times – Tuesday, October 1, 2019 After decades as one of the nation’s poorest states, New Mexico finds itself awash in revenue from the state’s oil-and-gas boom — so much so that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham last month proposed free tuition for residents at…
New Mexico Attorney General Forced To Respond To Criticism Over Use Of Bloomberg-Funded Attorneys
Pressure is building on New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas over his office’s use of attorneys that are paid for by a group created with financial backing of New York City Mayor and climate activist Michael Bloomberg. Balderas is one of 11 state attorneys general known to the public who has brought on such private attorneys funded by Bloomberg’s State Energy…
GAO files reply on MSJ related to Maryland AG @BrianFrosh hiding documents
On Tuesday, Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. filed a Reply in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment, opposing Maryland AG Brian Frosh’s effort to keep hidden from the public his “application” seeking Michael Bloomberg’s resources to pursue the climate litigation agenda. Frosh is the only AG so hiding this document – and the only AG with three Bloomberg-financed special…
Maryland AG Asks Court to Seal His Application for Bloomberg “Special Assistant AGs”
In Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. v. Office of the Attorney General, Maryland AG Brian Frosh has asked a court to seal Frosh’s application seeking Michael Bloomberg underwriting for Frosh’s “climate” policy and ideological activism. CLW readers know that Bloomberg created a group to place privately hired attorneys in AG offices “to advance the agenda represent by” Bloomberg’s group. Meaning, Bloomberg’s agenda. Frosh…
EID: What is AG @BrianFrosh hiding?
NEW MOTION SEEKS DETAILS ON MARYLAND AGS USE OF BLOOMBERG FUNDED ATTORNEYS By Energy in Depth’s PATRICK HALL A new court filing in the lawsuit against Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh seeks to further pull back the curtain on the Michael Bloomberg-backed State Energy and Environmental Impact Center (SEEIC) at the NYU School of Law, and the program’s continued efforts to place privately-funded attorneys…
GAO in the news: Conservatives challenge climate lawyers in state AG offices
Jennifer Hijazi, E&E News reporter Published: Monday, August 19, 2019Conservative groups are raising new legal questions about state attorneys general who are involved in climate litigation and hire outside lawyers to work on the issue. In a lawsuit filed in state court last week, Washington state-based Energy Policy Advocates said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) must hand over records detailing his…