House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Subcommittee on Courts Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), are accelerating their investigation into climate activists, plaintiffs’ attorneys, and the “improper attempts by the Environmental Law Institute and its Climate Judiciary Project to influence federal judges.”

The committee sent letters to Michael Burger, the Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, Jordan Diamond, the President of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and Vic Sher of Sher Edling, the law firm supporting many of the climate lawsuits around the country, seeking more information on their efforts to communicate biased and subjective information to judges who may soon rule on climate litigation.

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