The revoked endangerment finding forces a reckoning: will Wisconsin continue its expensive and dangerous energy transition, or will it examine the actual data? New evidence suggests the state should rescind…
Category: Climate Lawsuits
The Camel’s Nose (sorta) Under the Kentucky Tent
When the fossil fuel industry folks with influence grow a spine and explore much deeper – or when somebody ends up doing their work for them – every one of…
Wyoming Moves to Pull the Plug on Costly Pronghorn and Sidewinder Wind Projects
… by moving to pause the Pronghorn H2 and Sidewinder leases after emotional local testimony, a damning court ruling, and a last‑minute downsizing sales pitch, they began the process of…
U.S. judges saved from alarmist tome
“….the authors offer unsolicited, ex parte expert opinions on matters that they recognize are directly at issue in ongoing suits. In several places, for instance, the authors dismiss any suggestion…
Federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Climate Science Chapter — Withdrawn!
Here at Manhattan Contrarian, we get results. After my last three posts harshly critiquing the Federal Judicial Center’s newly revised Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, and particularly its chapter on…
Process Wins One: Federal Judicial Center Deletes Climate Chapter from Judicial Manual
That is not a victory for any particular scientific theory. It is a victory for skepticism in its proper sense—for restraint, for adversarial testing, and for the idea that courts…
More On The Federal Judicial Center And The Attribution Scam
The heart of the problem is that science is all about hypotheses being subject to empirical test against real world evidence. But the “attribution” studies and their methodology seek to…
The New Federal Reference Manual On Scientific Evidence: All The Smartest People Get Hoodwinked By The Climate Charlatans
Well, the entire NAS (or maybe it’s now the NASEM) has been taken in. (Or maybe they are in on the scam as a way to keep their funds flowing.)…
Mann v. Steyn: Finally Ready for Appeal?
As far as I can tell, this Order resolves the last remaining issues in this case at the trial court level. At Steyn’s website, the comment is “Next stop in…
Fossil Fuels Are Not Going Away: Why the Boulder Climate Case Is So Dangerous and SCOTUS Must Step In
Climate litigation like Boulder is the exact opposite of making progress and the ultimate shoot yourself in the foot energy-climate thinking that Americans rejected when all seven battleground states voted for…
Climate activists v. the U.S. energy industry: Cases to watch in 2026
Anti-oil and gas advocates across the country have pursued litigation in recent years attempting to force the fossil fuel industry to pay for decades of financial damages the advocates claim…
Shell Oil Sued Over “Causing Typhoon” in Philippines in Major Test Case
The Shell litigation is an important test case. Activists have spent years seeking financial support and recognition for their pseudoscientific claims that they can measure a chaotic and non-linear atmosphere.…
America’s Energy Independence Threatened By “Dark Money” Lawfare
Beyond distorting our law and politics, this climate lawfare inflicts another harm on America: it suppresses production of reliable energy sources like natural gas in favor of weather-dependent windmills and solar panels.
NGOs Help Philippine Typhoon Victims to Launch a Climate Lawsuit
NGOs should be helping these people put their lives back together. Instead, they appear to be encouraging wild fantasies of a big payday.
Greenpeace Asks a DUTCH Court to Overturn a $345 Million Dakota Pipeline Judgement
Greenpeace appears to think European courts have pre-eminence over US courts, even for events which happened in the USA.
Supreme Court should not let climate lawfare set US energy policy
Let’s hope the Supreme Court agrees that Boulder’s lawsuit is an excellent opportunity to terminate frivolous climate lawfare, expand on the guidance it provided in these two previous cases –…
Claim: Rejecting Emissions Targets Undermines the International Rules Based Order
Apparently New Zealand’s climate defiance could bring down the Jenga Tower of international law.
New York At The Green Energy Wall — What Is The Exit Strategy?
Our legislators, innumerate to a person, had bought into the fantasy — peddled by lightweight academics like Mark Jacobson and Robert Howarth, and by grifting promoters like the American Wind…
New York’s climate law hits the wall
Hell done froze. New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a leading contender for Greenest Governor in America, wants to redo their infamous Climate Act because New Yorkers cannot afford it. This…
Eco-Activists’ Courtroom Carbon Tax Must Be Stopped
When the lawyers for the environmental movement tell you what they’re trying to do, believe them. They’ve admitted quiet part out loud: their lawsuits are a carbon tax by another…