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Hell Hath Frozen Over: Court Docs Suggest Repeat of Obama/Copenhagen, Biden EPA Plans to Spring Unprecedented “Back Door” Climate Rule, One Obama’s EPA Chief Called “Not Advisable”, in Glasgow
Surely — Again — Glasgow “Timing is a coincidence”: Biden EPA Replaying Obama EPA Trick for a “GHG NAAQS”? Sue-and-Settle also reappearing to avoid rulemaking, legislation So, this is fascinating, as well as potentially huge — and rather scandalous, as environmental policy scandals go. The Biden Administration appears set to subtly affirm in October a “‘Back Door’ Climate Plan” —…
More on Biden Climate-cars: Secretly Negotiated Between “Certain Automakers” and Their “Partners”?
Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial “The Electric Vehicle Welfare State: Car makers back the Biden climate agenda in return for subsidies and higher consumer prices” notes, among other things: Yep: h/t Elvin Bishop, how long has this been going on? Courtesy of Energy Policy Advocates: Nope. Longer. A little more about this from when it first got, well, rolling, did manage…
Activist Backstory to New Biden Climate-car Standards
NHTSA is expected tomorrow to issue new global warming standards dictating what sort of vehicles Americans can drive. GAO is engaged in long-running public-records litigation with Carlson’s employer from whom she took a leave of absence to perform this job, UCLA Law School (technically, Regents of the University of California). That suit seeks certain records sent to or from Carlson…
Records Obtained by Watchdog Energy Policy Advocates Show Top Interior Lawyer Sought Ethics Waiver Pertaining to Work Performed for Bloomberg Activist Group
Documents obtained by watchdog Energy Policy Advocates reveal DOI developed “non-standard language” in order to grant Haaland’s Senior Counselor an unusual ethics waiver Today, federal watchdog groups Energy Policy Advocates (EPA) and Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) announced the first batch of publicly released documents obtained via EPA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation with the US Department of the…
Taxpayer Dollars and Facebook Climate Censorship
Full productions from one institution that has produced records showing at least some of the extent to which it is deploying government (taxpayer) resources toward Facebook’s censoring of climate realism can be found here, here and here.
Facebook’s Climate Censors
Courtesy of Energy Policy Advocates, some public-institution correspondence with an entity seemingly dedicated to canceling Steven Koonin, Bjorn Lomborg, Michael Shellenberger and other climate realists:
Curious Chronology re DoI Official’s Ethics Claims
“1001” Reasons Congress Needs More Information A timeline of events surrounding Elizabeth Klein’s appointment as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior sheds some light on the Department’s ethical lapses and raises even more questions. January 21, 2021 Elizabeth Klein, recent-former Deputy Director of the Michael Bloomberg group created to plant activist attorneys in state AG offices to, among…
EPA Heavily Redacts Official’s Recusal Information
The Biden Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has released selected, often heavily redacted records pertaining to the conflicts and recusals for Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, and Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation (i.e., “climate”), Joe Goffman. The recusal statement is notable for what it does and does not include. As for the redactions, they appear to be heavy-handed given past…
CLIMATE LITIGATION BOMBSHELL: New Paper Exposes AG “Climate” Suit as Illicit Product of Private Lobbying, Misrepresentation, Paid ‘Cutouts’
Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., published a paper on behalf of its client the government-transparency group Energy Policy Advocates, titled “Private Funders, Public Institutions: ‘Climate’ Litigation and a Crisis of Integrity”. Minnesota’s “climate” lawsuit and its replica filed the next day in Washington, D.C., like all of these suits, represent transparent attempts to manufacture state jurisdiction for a litigation campaign…
Supremely Good Timing
You likely have heard that the Supreme Court reached the right decision today in BP plc et al. v. City of Baltimore. That opinion concerns a mildly weedy procedural mater (whether the 4th Cir. erred in holding that it lacked the power to consider all of the defendants’ grounds for removal), but a critical one given the circumstances, and an opinion which should help in removing these cases to federal court where they…
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…