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.”
Category: Climate Lawsuits
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…
New York’s Climate Rule Reaches into Iowa. Iowa Reaches Back.
This is the test case the post-endangerment-finding era has been waiting for. The federal climate regulatory architecture is paused. The state architecture is escalating. The question of whether the latter…
Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One
For all the talk of finally relitigating the underlying climate science, the EPA’s final rule does almost none of that. It does not argue that greenhouse gases fail to qualify…
California’s Climate Overreach
“The Affordable Insurance and Recovery Act (SB 982) would impose liability on fossil fuel companies for ‘climate-attributable damages,’ expected to be assessed in billions of dollars. It would empower California’s attorney…
Save Long Beach Island (LBI) Sues NOAA for Failure to Protect the Migration Corridor of the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale
Lawsuit seeks to compel NOAA to act on a year-old petition to designate the whale’s migration path a “critical habitat” to ensure its survival.
Amicus Brief of Naomi Oreskes … er, “Expert Report” Redux 5: the Conservation Law Foundation v Shell version
The legacy new media reporters never once questioned the collective accusation sources behind the “crooked skeptic climate scientists” accusation. This rock-bottom journalism malfeasance problem is unsustainable. The crash of the…
Leftists Fake Tears About High Energy Prices, But Ignore the Foreign-Funded Lawfare
There’s an invisible hand reaching into America’s pocket every time we fill up at the pump or pay that electric bill, and it doesn’t come through the Strait of Hormuz.
Good News: Fifth Circuit Says Government’s Tax Power Is Not Designed to Control Behavior
A somewhat under-the-radar decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit earlier this month is, on its surface, focused on the issue of home alcohol distilling. But…