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Following on this post, less-redacted billing sheets for the Michigan AG’s consultant, Skip Pruss, have been obtained on administrative appeal by Energy Policy Advocates.  These confirm the taxpayer is indeed paying Pruss an hourly rate as a non-employee to play intermediary with the “climate nuisance” tort firm, Sher Edling for its lobbying the AG’s office to investigate and/or sue energy…

A summary at The Pipeline of what’s behind this norm-busting use of state attorneys general offices. After reminding us of the folly, the piece continues: All of which is to say, there may be a reason to do away with separation of powers, and to abandon our economic liberties. There may be a reason to allow privately hired “special assistant…

Following on this post, Energy Policy Advocates have obtained less-redacted billing sheets for the Michigan AG’s consultant, Skip Pruss, on administrative appeal. These confirm the taxpayer is indeed paying Pruss an hourly rate as a non-employee to play intermediary with Michael Bloomberg’s outfit established to place “special assistant attorneys general” in AG offices to pursue issues of concern to Bloomberg.

After this expose’, we see this:

From Inside Sources: Michael Bloomberg’s billions aren’t just buying ads. In at least two Super Tuesday states, his money funds private lawyers working inside attorneys general offices, advancing his political agenda on the environment. One Democrat AG compares accepting this private funding from a political candidate with federal funding from “President Trump’s” Department of Justice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Read the entire piece…

After this expose’, we see this:

After this expose’, we see this:

From Real Clear Energy: Emails between RBF and one of its partners in advocacy, the Center for a New Energy Economy at Colorado State University, reveal concern that these public records would find their way to the American public. For example, RBF’s Northrop raised the prospect of mailing the notes instead of email, having been tipped off to one of…

Excerpts: Newly obtained public records offer a window into one of the most troubling political developments in recent years. That is the enlistment of state attorneys general by activists and tort lawyers to advance an agenda when stymied by democracy. These new emails provide a case-study in the capture of an AG’s office…. Emails obtained by the nonprofit transparency group…

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”…

Read the entire item at RealClearEnergy.org:  

From The Washington Times:     Read more and see the documents at Climate Litigation Watch.

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

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 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%…

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.…