Activist groups at the heart of the climate litigation campaign have launched a new video featuring Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison promoting the climate lawsuit he filed this summer. The video was sponsored and created by the YEARS Project and Fossil Free Media and is...
Automakers are the latest to be named to a growing list of major industries, companies and groups who activists claim apparently knew about climate change individually but hid that information from the public. Yes, that’s right. First Exxon Knew, then Shell knew, then the utilities...
In a moment of refreshing honesty – or perhaps a Freudian slip – a major player behind the climate litigation campaign admitted that the goal is not to win lawsuits. Instead, the campaign is part of a politically motivated effort to gain access to, and...
As former Vice President Joe Biden looks to wrap up the Democratic presidential nomination, his party’s policy platform is taking shape with an embrace of the Green New Deal. Biden has touted support for the Green New Deal, but he has still faced criticism from...
Earlier this month saw the announcement of the 2019 SEAL awards honoring environmental journalists who toe the activist line particularly well. The list of reporters makes more sense when you begin to dig deeper into the award and realized it is organized by Project Drawdown,...
Next month, the cities of San Francisco and Oakland will go before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an attempt to resurrect their previously dismissed climate case, once again trying to pin alleged future damages from global climate change on a handful of energy companies....
In just a couple of weeks, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments stemming from the two California-based lawsuits where municipalities are suing energy companies for alleged costs associated with combating climate change. The energy companies will have their chance to tell...
The California legislature is considering a new multi-billion-dollar climate bond to address future climate-change related disasters, according to reporting by ABC News. Far from the frivolous climate litigation schemes and anti-industry rhetoric being pitched by activists, this bond could offer a common sense solution to...
Foreign agents aren’t limiting their meddling to American elections – they’re also propping up the campaign to push American cities and counties to sue energy companies. Chris Hohn, a reclusive British billionaire, is fueling efforts to sue American energy producers, according to a new article...
As we await a verdict in the New York attorney general’s (NYAG) “historic” trial against ExxonMobil due this week, we already know one thing for sure: “Exxon Knew” is dead. The NYAG trial was supposed to be the “Exxon Knew” campaign’s crowning achievement. An activist...
The Colorado chapter of the Sunrise Movement stooped to a new low yesterday when it sent out a fake press release supposedly from the Denver Mayor’s office to sow confusion and try to convince people on Twitter that the mayor really declared a “climate emergency”...
Kert Davies’ Climate Investigations Center (CIC) is at it again, trying to create a scandal by releasing cherry-picked documents from Imperial Oil’s publicly available archive, even as CIC was slammed by a non-profit group Thursday for “using dishonest and potentially unlawful business practices and wasting...