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GAO Executive Director Chris Horner appeared February 7th to discuss the Green New Deal on FOX News’ Hannity.

Government Accountability & Oversight 724 Bielenberg Drive Woodbury, MN 55125     For Immediate Release: February 25th, 2019 Contact Dave Mohel: (703)217-2660 dave@strategiccommsgroup.com   GAO Files Suit for Document Detailing Maryland AG Brian Frosh’s Role In National Scandal MD’s AG Refuses to Release Unredacted Application to Bloomberg Group Detailing Intended Political Use of Office, Clearly Illegal Appointment   (Washington, DC) —…

Government Accountability & Oversight 724 Bielenberg Drive Woodbury, MN 55125     For Immediate Release: February 24th, 2019 Contact Dave Mohel: (703)217-2660 dave@strategiccommsgroup.com   GAO Praises Virginia General Assembly: 1st Legislature to Strike at Bloomberg Attempt to Capture AG Offices (Washington, DC) — Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) congratulated the Virginia General Assembly for…

State Department email records show that environmental activists who have denied operating as foreign agents in response to congressional inquiries partnered with Obama administration officials to advance climate change policies that were beneficial to China and detrimental to the United States, according to energy policy analysts and attorneys who have reviewed the electronic correspondence. The World Resources Institute, a Washington…

(Washington, DC) — The public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO), had a victory on Monday in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond (VA) in its effort to obtain what legal analysis could possibly lead Attorney General Mark Herring’s Office to declare to a group funded by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg that the AG…

Government Accountability & Oversight 724 Bielenberg Drive Woodbury, MN 55125     For Immediate Release: November 8th, 2018 Contact Dave Mohel: (703)217-2660 dave@strategiccommsgroup.com   GAO Files Suit against University of California on behalf of CEI for Information on UCLA Law School Involvement with Climate Litigation Industry   WASHINGTON, November 8th, 2018 – Government Oversight & Accountability’s (GAO) today filed suit against…

(From Climate Litigation Watch) A new CLW video,  citing to a recent report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, “Law Enforcement for Rent,” lays out the most stunning revelation about an extensive and elaborate campaign to use law enforcement, in coordination with major contributors and activist pressure groups, to attain a policy agenda that failed through the democratic process.  Among the…

A New York University School of Law program funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg is placing lawyers in the offices of Democratic state attorneys general and paying them to prosecute energy companies and challenge Trump administration policies on energy and the environment. Nine states and Washington, D.C., including New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, are participating in the multimillion-dollar program funded by…

The coordinated campaign between elected officials and pressure groups to block confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to a position as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court seemed, at least in terms of its scale and brazenness, to be sui generis — despite the ugly Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas confirmation processes, never before had our country seen anything like this effort…

Document Production Re: FOIA Case Nos. 47805 and 47907, Civil Action 18-1739     2018.09.28 _ Horner, Miller (NIH 47805, 47907 CA 18-1739) _ Prod Ltr     2018.09.28 _ (NIH 47805, 47907 CA 18-1739) _ Prod Encl

In a new report, “Law Enforcement for Rent How Special Interests Fund Climate Policy through State Attorneys General” Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Senior Fellow Chris Horner details how activist donors are paying to place prosecutors in state attorney general offices to pursue an expressly partisan agenda. Records show this campaign to use the legal system to achieve political goals began as an informal coalition…

This week media, activists, major environmental donors, and government officials will descend on San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit hosted by California Gov. Jerry Brown and co-chaired by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, United Nations representatives, and others. According to a new report by Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Senior Fellow Chris Horner, the summit is part of a larger…

Privately funded “special assistant attorneys general” (SAAGs) are presently working in at least six jurisdictions, under agreements that they focus on matters of importance to the billionaire donor paying their salary and benefits and regularly report back on their activities. The donor is Michael Bloomberg, and his interest is “climate change.” This unprecedented arrangement raises questions not just of state…

A shadow government made up of former Obama climate change aides and funded by wealthy environmental advocates is supplementing liberal governors in an “off-the-books” operation to help them win approval of sweeping global warming changes and defy President Trump, according to a new investigative report. In it’s “Government for Rent” report, the Competitive Enterprise Institute published dozens of emails detailing the scheme and…

Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner joins Varney & Co. to discuss his latest report, “Law Enforcement for Rent,” detailing how activist donors are paying to place prosecutors in state AG offices to pursue their climate change agenda

When I read the first two volumes of Robert A. Caro’s magnificent series on Lyndon B. Johnson, The Path to Power and Means of Ascent, I thought LBJ was one of a kind. I still do but reading the Horner brief makes me aware that LBJ has some competitors: ruthless politicians who take extreme measures to get their way and shake down their…

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today released a report, “Law Enforcement for Rent,” detailing how activist donors are paying to place prosecutors in state attorney general offices to pursue an expressly partisan agenda. These public emails and documents reveal the details of an unprecedented, coordinated effort between environmental groups, plaintiffs’ lawyers, and major liberal donors using nonprofit organizations to fund…

Outside sources paid for new attorneys in the office of numerous attorney general offices around the country in order to gin up climate and environmental litigation for political purposes, according to a new report by a D.C.-based think tank. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a self-described free-market think tank, published the 56-page report, bolstering their claims with emails and documents from dozens of open records requests to…

Outside sources funded attorneys in numerous attorney general offices across the country in an effort to advance politically inspired climate and environmental litigation, a new report claims. The report, titled, “Law Enforcement for Rent,” comes from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. In the report, researcher and author Chris Horner alleges that former New York City…

U.S. foundations are now spending over $1 billion a year to advance the global warming agenda – an amount several orders of magnitude bigger than the sums spent promoting climate change skepticism. The eyewatering sum is revealed in an investigation, conducted by Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, into some of secret forces and nefarious methods pushing the climate change…