For years, City and County of Boulder officials have defended their climate lawsuit by pointing to its outside counsel arrangement where the law firms’ lawyers work on a contingency fee agreement along with repeated assurances that local taxpayers would not be paying for the arrangement.

However, new comments from Boulder District Attorney and Democrat state attorney general candidate Michael Dougherty raise serious questions about whether Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser – and potentially Colorado taxpayers – helped support that legal operation from behind the scenes. If so, it would represent a clear flip flop from Weiser, who has long voiced skepticism about the legal merits of the case.

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