Michigan

GAO has prevailed against the University of Michigan Regents’ effort to dismiss GAO’s FOIA suit seeking records reflecting the use of this public institution (specifically, its law school), for activist-donor campaigns (specifically, in service to the climate industry). GAO previously detailed the suit and the Law School’s efforts to shield what it admitted in pleadings was a project for the…

With Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filing the “climate” lawsuit that campaign supporter Michigan LCV had lobbied her to file against energy companies, and the UM law school faculty putting the shoulder to the wheel as well, GAO recalls the recently unearthed record of just how occupied Michigan’s government is with donor-financed “climate staff”. First, recall Nessel’s embrace of taking…