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Banking Committee Rs to Biden: Cool it on Fossil Fuel Finance Freeze-Out
Another fed gov’t campaign to strangle legal businesses’ access to capital From the Senate Banking Committee Republicans, a letter to the Biden White House’s climate-treaty czar John Kerry and the administration criticizing efforts to coerce banks into de-platforming fossil energy companies, and taking aim at a new global warming disclosure mandate on publicly traded companies. Toomey, GOP Banking Members Demand Kerry,…
The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, We Think
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s Office led the development of what the Wall Street Journal editorial board called “Biden’s ‘BackDoor’ Climate Plan,” a clever if likely unlawful way to sneak in the Green New Deal under the auspices of controlling ozone — ditching failed climate messaging on “Polar ice caps and the polar bears [which] have become the climate change…
HAPPY ANNY, MOST CYNICAL EPA MEMO EVER
Timely milestone for one of the most cynical documents obtained during the Obama administration With the signs increasing that the Biden EPA plans to use National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”) to impose its climate agenda without the political peril of congressional votes, GAO wishes an infamous Obama-Biden memo a Happy, Very Timely Anniversary. This particular memo, titled “Strategic Communications…
Dem AGs: Whoa, There on the Infrastructure Projects, Easy Does it on the Economic Recovery
As far back as June 2020 progressive AGs already banded together to make sure promiscuous claims of a so-called COVID “emergency” didn’t unleash projects that were actually “shovel ready”. Could lead to economic recovery. Shut down the economy in the name of a COVID emergency? How dare you question that. Spend trillions for the same reason? Absolutely. Suspend laws in…
More Minnesota Madness: Keeping Records From the Public, and “Red Area” Courts From Scrutinizing OAG
Claiming Inconvenience, Minnesota AG Ellison Seeks to Keep Court in “Rocks and Cows” Country Away from Scrutiny of Bloomberg-funded Attorney Deal AG Office Claims “No Connection” Between Home County of Employer OAG Targeted and Records About OAG Coordination with Outside Groups to Target the Employer Move comes as OAG refuses to release signed Confidentiality Statement that activists on a Zoom…
Biden Cabinet Nominee Open to New Taxes to Pay for “Climate Agenda” — as Gov., Sued Energy Cos. to Obtain “Sustainable Funding Stream” Because Legislature Refused
GAO and ClimateLitigationWatch readers are familiar with the effort by the State of Rhode Island to sue energy companies in state court for causing climate change, hoping to cash in after the administration concluded that the State’s “Assembly [had] very conservative leadership — don’t care about env’t”, leaving the Governor “looking for sustainable funding stream”. So it should be no…
Voila! Minnesota AG Contract With Climate Nuisance Tort Firm Appears
Within hours of Energy Policy Advocates filing suit against the Minnesota Office of Attorney General this morning (noted by GAO at 10:40, here), in part over a missing contract hiring an outside law firm to sue energy companies for climate change, the Minnesota Office of Management and Budget provided the group with the contract in response to an outstanding records…
New Records Suit: Where is MN AG Ellison’s Half-Billion Dollar Contract with ‘Climate Nuisance’ Tort Firm?
The government-transparency group Energy Policy Advocates filed a public records suit in Minnesota today. In July 2020, EPA requested various records pertaining to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s relationship with ‘climate nuisance’ tort law firm Sher Edling, LLP, including a contract which does now apparently exist, which contract a Minnesota good-governance law makes clear required approval but which, apparently, has…
Washington Times Column: “Corrupted climate litigation industry comes to SCOTUS”
GAO Board Member Chris Horner has a piece in today’s Washington Times about the climate litigation industry and next week’s oral argument in the Mayor and City of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c. An Excerpt: Climate litigation industry comes to SCOTUS Supreme Court will decide whether government donors, ideologues and the trial bar should prevail Increasingly, societal institutions have enlisted as…
Washington Times: Despite denials, count on Biden-Harris to direct AG to do their scandalous bidding
From the Washington Times: With a potentially bruising Department of Justice confirmation battles looming, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris now vigorously deny that they would ever direct their Attorney General to do their political bidding or target specific opponents. This would be unremarkable, had they not promised the opposite with equal vigor – and disturbing specificity – during the…
GAO’s Horner: Send Paris Treaty to Senate, Head Off Further Adventurism
From today’s Washington Times: When Obama made the Paris climate agreement end run Failure to act on its revival guarantees more such adventurism in a Biden-Harris administration Recently, conservatives have called on President Trump to transmit the Paris climate agreement to the Senate as a treaty requiring “advice and consent” before it can in any way bind the United States,…
Pipeline: Red Dragon, Green Agenda
The Pipeline has run a piece by GAO board member Chris Horner about the growing record of China’s influence on Western institutions, which the Chinese deploy to advance China’s interests, particularly weakening the West through advancing the “green” agenda. That is to say, “For China, climate change offers a strategic opportunity. Decarbonizing the rest of the world makes China’s economy stronger…
Washington Examiner on Energy Policy Advocates’ FOIA Suit re Paris Treaty
FOIA lawsuit seeks to highlight just how little ‘advice and consent’ went into the Paris Agreement By Kevin Mooney Getting documents out of a government agency is a heavy lift. That’s what the nonprofit organization Energy Policy Advocates aims to do in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, seeking State Department documents that describe how the Obama administration circumvented the…
National Journal on Possible Trump Submission of Paris Climate Treaty to Senate
Brian Dabbs @BRIANDABBS Dec. 22, 2020, 8 p.m. Speaking at a virtual G-20 summit last month, President Trump championed his decision to bow out of the Paris climate accord. “I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris climate accord, a very unfair act for the United States,” Trump told leaders of the globe’s biggest economies, all of…
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…