Endorsing a manual without examining its most contentious sections compromises due diligence. Fortunately, it is not too late to correct course. The Federal Judicial Center should act now to restore…
Category: Climate Lawsuits
The International Court of Justice Climate Liability Ruling Sets a Worrying Precedent for Pandemics and Public Health
In many countries the Covid response mimicked the climate change playbook. The catastrophism of both agendas was based on models. Claims of scientific authority and existential crisis escalated the agendas…
Claim: The USA has a Legal Obligation to Fund Climate Science – But Research Teams MUST Include Indigenous Knowledge
“The Inter-American Court … requires … joint production of climate knowledge between scientists and the custodians of such knowledge’ …”
Trump Demands Review of ‘Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence’ Used by Federal Judges
When taxpayer dollars fund studies and guidance that may shape litigation, regulation, and national policy, transparency is not optional but essential, and Congress has every right to demand full visibility…
Endangerment Finding Litigation Update
So here we are on July 21, more than five months since the case began. The court has not issued a decision on either of these preposterous “procedural” motions. And…
Blue States Join Lawsuit Against Trump’s Wind Energy Freeze
Oregon and Washington joined a broader legal challenge to the Trump administration’s pause on new wind energy approvals, arguing the freeze threatens planned projects, grid reliability and state clean-energy mandates.
Connecticut v. Exxon — the Sher Edling connection
Basic point is, the interconnectedness of these lawsuits becomes ever more apparent the deeper anyone examines these.
Green Robes, Red Strings: National Security Watchdog Flags ELI’s CCP Ties to Judicial Training
If our political leaders are serious about both national security and the integrity of our courts, they must treat this as a counterintelligence problem, not just another Washington “review.”
Climate Change Weekly # 583—Climate Lawfare Is Flawed, Legal Panel Finds
Legal scholars are becoming increasingly skeptical of the legal merits of climate lawfare: lawsuits filed by cities, states, and individuals to change climate policy through the back door of the…
GAO Again Seeks to File Amicus Brief in U.S. v. Minnesota, Correct the Record on State’s Slipperiness
This filing points to a little game AG Keith Ellison’s office is playing, exposed by a letter his office sent along with the District of Columbia’s Attorney General Racine. That June 2021 overture asked…
New ICJ Climate Case Demands Australia Restrict or Cease Fossil Fuel Exports
Australia’s gross coal and gas export climate hypocrisy on trial.
Louisiana Did the Right Thing by Blocking Climate Lawfare
It is the state’s job to handle major civil engineering projects like building levees, so long as they want to maintain below-sea level cities. Louisiana’s legislature and Gov. Landry did…
Meet Tessa Khan, the Climate Activist-Litigator Waging War on North Sea Oil and Gas
The UK’s energy policy is too important – and the costs of getting it wrong too severe for ordinary working people – to be delegated to the climate litigation class.…
Trump’s Energy Agenda Is Being Undermined By His Own Justice Department
It is the kind of blunder that makes you wonder how it ever got this far. Trump’s own Justice Department is undercutting the administration’s effort to rein in federal climate…
A Quiet Rewrite That Could Shape a Thousand Climate Cases
An under-the-radar legal switcheroo should concern every business leader, investor, and taxpayer in America. Now, 23 state attorneys general have taken notice and sent a letter to the Administrative Office…
The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 million from Exxon’ Accusation … is still more dicey, Part 2
There are no such words to that effect anywhere in the 131-page Smithsonian FOIA docs. The only thing that resembles a direct communication between Dr Soon and any Exxon official…
The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 million from Exxon’ Accusation … just got an increment more dicey
See the way nothing lines up right here? On top of all of that, the accusation itself has no merit. Dr Soon can readily explain how the Smithsonian was in…
United Nations Resolution Demands the USA Pay Everyone Elses Climate Damage Claims
They didn’t actually say “USA”, but we all know what they meant.
Analysis: China-backed litigators crippling Louisiana energy
Stricter enforcement of the FARA law and its transparency requirements could also act as a deterrent against green pressure groups in league with China and other hostile foreign actors. Until…