. For Immediate Release: July 27, 2017Contact: info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 E&E Legal Wins Major Rulings in Two Separate Vermont Public Records Suits Involving AG’s Climate RICO Crusade Washington, D.C. – The…
Category: RICO20
Uh, oh – House science committee to draw a line in the sand tomorrow for #RICO20 and #ExxonKnew
Hearing: Affirming Congress’ Constitutional Oversight Responsibilities WASHINGTON – Wednesday, September 14, at 10 a.m. EST, the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will hold a hearing titled Affirming Congress’ Constitutional…
RICO Charges Against 'Climate Deniers': A Case of Goose and Gander
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball As the people in power, like Al Gore and the White House, see the false claim of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) losing public interest they…
Newly Released AG Emails Reveal Anxiety Over Schneiderman-led #ExxonKnew Climate Investigations
Emails reveal early warnings that “Wild Card” NY Attorney General Schneiderman’s Climate-RICO crusade would get jilted by other AGs From E&E Legal: Newly released records show even ideologically aligned state…
Activists admit at forum they’ve been working with NY AG on climate RICO campaign for over a year
From Energy in Depth’s Katie Brown At a forum on Wednesday hosted by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, several climate activists including Naomi Oreskes and representatives from the Union of Concerned…
AG's striking back at #ExxonKnew and #RICO20 say – "we can come after climate alarmists for fraud, too"
From the Washington Times and the department of “Mutally Assured Destruction” (MAD) comes this blowback. If Democratic attorneys general can pursue climate change skeptics for fraud, then also at risk…
Here we go again: Massachusetts AG Demands Docs From More Conservative Skeptic Groups #RICO20
From Mike Bastasch at the Daily Caller: Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is now the latest state prosecutor to start investigating conservative groups with supposed ties to ExxonMobil, after she…
An Open Letter to the #ExxonKnew #RICO20 Attorneys General about Climate Change
From the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation: Dear Attorneys General, You’re not stupid. Stupid people don’t graduate from law school. Neither are you generally ignorant. You know lots…
More #RICO20 GMU emails released
While some emails were released previously here, due to a glitch in my system, I didn’t get a second file link posted that I should have. Many of the emails…
Crowd-source this document dump: The GMU #RICO20 emails are now online in full
As readers know, last week CEI scored a final court victory on the FOI request for GMU’s emails in the RICO20 case. In the final days, while GMU was prepared…
Bazinga! Edward Maibach and his FOI emergency stay for the #RICO20 emails gets slapped down by the court
From my sources in Virginia Court, comes this news about what we reported on recently: CEI fires back at Ed Maibach over ’emergency stay’ of #RICO20 FOIA documents – looks like…
More FOI follies from the George Mason University #RICO20 train wreck: Edward Maibach, 'legal gymnast'
People send me stuff. Today, I’ve been given CEI’s response to the “emergency stay” that Ed Maibach filed (via his own attorney) last week that sought not only to prevent…
BREAKING: CEI Defeats RICO-20 Ringleader Shukla In FOIA Lawsuit – Emails to be are made public
From CEI’s web page: CEI Defeats RICO-20 Ringleader In FOIA Lawsuit George Mason University Must Release Documents Calling for Prosecution of Political Opponents The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) prevailed…
Deposition sheds troubling new light on the #RICO20/DOJ “potential investigation of climate deniers”
14 of the RICO20 Guest essay by Chris Horner Yesterday, in a Senate hearing, Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged internal discussions about possible Department of Justice racketeering investigations into political…
Lawsuit filed in the #RICO20 case against GMU for 'denying' records exist
Via press release: CEI Files FOIA Lawsuit Against George Mason University for Denying Existence of Records Related to RICO-20 Letter George Mason University (GMU) faculty claimed “no records” existed in…
Document suggests that a Climate activist shadow organization was behind the #RICO20 allegations
This is in the news today via “Climate NEXUS”, which is a Madison Ave. PR firm: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that he is launching a legal probe…
Retracted claim: FOIA suggests #RICO20 leader Jagdish Shukla falsely claimed prestigious NASA medal.
UPDATE: (edited) My own research uncovers that the claim made by Steve Milloy is UNTRUE. See this NASA document: https://searchpub.nssc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/Agency_Awards_Historical_Recipient_List.pdf?rhid=1000&did=2120817&type=released Apparently Milloy’s FOIA request was not broad enough. I apologize…
Are Jagdish Shukla and the #RICO20 Guilty of Racketeering?
Guest opinion by Marlo Lewis, Jr, CEI Controversy continues to swirl around the September 1 letter from 20 climate scientists to President Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and White House science adviser…
'Supermandia' doesn't seem to like questions about Shukla, #RICO20, and The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
Long time WUWT readers may remember that a defender of “the cause”, Professor Scott Mandia, donned a Halloween costume and professed his love of defending Michael Mann and others who…
Jagdish Shukla's #RICO20 blunder may have opened the 'largest science scandal in US history'
Yesterday, Shukla and GMU got notice that they have piqued the interest of a congressional committee, and via a written notice are required to preserve documents for an impending Congressional…
Uh, oh. Jagdish Shukla and the #RICO20 has captured the attention of Congress, and FOIA documents are coming out
First, this press release today from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and chair Lamar Smith . Some material obtained from George Mason University today via FOIA shed…
#RICO20 $4 million NSF grant while Shukla's organization is being "dissolved" ?
As previously noted at WUWT, over at the COLA/IGES website, they had this response to the disappeared letter to the Obama administration calling for RICO act investigations of climate skeptics:…
Backfire on the #RICO20 and Jagadish Shukla is imminent; wagon circling, climbdown, dissolution begins
This story has legs now, as I predicted in this piece yesterday “The ‘RICO 20 letter’ to Obama asking for prosecution of climate skeptics disappears from Shukla’s IGES website amid…
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