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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

New Open Records Lawsuit seeks unredacted AG documents from outside parties relating to “sue-and-settle” scheme AGs can’t get story straight; telling Wall Street Journal one thing, everyone else (including courts) something else New revelation follows WSJ story, GAO elaboration  GAO Files Lawsuit Against Oregon AG for Refusing to Release Emails, Memos from Activists, former EPA Attorneys about Plan to Sue…

Activists who came up with plan now on Biden EPA transition team As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a trail of emails between progressive state attorneys generals (AG) offices and former Obama-Biden and career Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials – obtained over nine months by Energy Policy Advocates’ dogged public record requests – reveal a plan to use the courts…

Bloomberg-provided Attorneys Insist to Courts “Climate” Suits are Local, Not Effort at National Policymaking; Documents Show These Attorneys Were Provided to AGs to Work on “Matters of National Importance” Brief Reveals for First Time an AGs, Tort Bar Pact to Coordinate on “Local” Climate Nuisance Lawsuits WASHINGTON, D.C., November 23, 2020 – The transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (“EPA”) today…

“Contumacious conduct” sanctioned by federal judge The Biden-Harris Presidential Campaign announced a transition team, offering hints of where the operation is headed if the former Vice President is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. In addition to a representative from Grist Magazine — last seen publishing a call to herd climate realists into “war crimes trials for…

Biden-Harris efforts to “heal” a divided nation continued yesterday with the announcement by that presidential campaign of a transition team, in the event the former Vice President is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Grist Magazine is represented, famous for publishing a call to herd climate realists into “war crimes trials for these bastards — some sort…

Capital Research Center has published a series by investigative journalist Kevin Mooney, “China’s Green Offensive”. This item, “China’s Green Offensive: The Obama State Department”, includes reference to an important suit brought under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on behalf of the Institute for Energy Research. Excerpts: Natural Resources Defense Council. In particular, Jack Schmidt, NRDC’s director of international…

Paris Climate ‘Accord’ FOIA Case: State Dept. Releases, Withholds Parts of Memo to Sec. John Kerry Requesting Authority to Sign Paris Agreement  It appears possible that, come January, the United States will rejoin the 2015 Paris climate agreement, committing to adopt the “Green New Deal” agenda (now rebranded for political purposes as “Net Zero”). This will not be accomplished by…

Can’t Spell The Swamp Without E-P-A Following up on this gem posted earlier, the topic of properly using — or misusing — law enforcement powers is one of great interest to GAO, which also runs ClimateLitigationWatch.org. The importance of the issue has become increasingly obvious in the past, say, four years. It became more topical still with the announcement of…

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As Biden vows immediate re-entry into climate pact, State has stopped processing critical FOIA request; Plaintiff argued to Court that next 60 days present the sole opportunity for public to debate the question whether Paris was in fact legally “entered” by Obama/Biden’s Pen-and-a-Phone Strategy Court Nonetheless Urges State to Release Three Remaining Documents by October 15 WASHINGTON, D.C. – This…