In the latest twist in Multnomah County’s climate lawsuit, Chevron has filed a motion that peels back the curtain on how plaintiffs lawyers and the Environmental Law Institute are trying to shape the very evidence they use in court.

The filing reveals that the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project, which is currently under investigation by the House Judiciary Committee, has ties to Roger Worthington, an attorney representing Multnomah County.

Moreover, the filing claims that both Worthington and ELI were involved in crafting an attribution science study cited by Dr. Ben Franta on behalf of the plaintiffs. Amidst this new evidence, the oil company has requested the court disregard the tainted study and hear oral arguments to investigate the full extent of additional influence over “neutrally presented materials.”

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