Putting to rest any semblance of journalistic integrity, InsideClimate News (ICN) yesterday used the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil as an opportunity to send out a fundraising email touting their work attacking the oil and gas company. ICN has played a central role...
The trial between the New York attorney general and ExxonMobil kicks off in New York today. In the lead up, we couldn’t help but notice that the Rockefeller echo-chamber seemed to be in full force, giving new life to the term “orchestrated campaign.” As we...
Three years after announcing her investigation into the company, with no documents discovered and no depositions taken, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is now threatening to bring a case against ExxonMobil over climate change. The effort began at an activist-organized press conference in 2016, where AG Healey...
It’s not that easy being green–unless you’re a nonprofit looking for donations. A new Axios analysis of tax filings from 18 of the most influential environmental groups found significant increases in donations between 2015 and 2017. Comparing 2015, the last full year before Trump’s election to 2017, the first...
During this week’s CNN presidential democratic debate, Erin Burnett, a CNN moderator, asked Senator Kamala Harris if she would sue ExxonMobil over the #ExxonKnew controversy. Harris replied quite confidently: “I have sued Exxon Mobil” CNN and The New York Times, among others, have pointed out:...
A new court filing in the lawsuit against Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh seeks to further pull back the curtain on the Michael Bloomberg-backed State Energy and Environmental Impact Center (SEEIC) at the NYU School of Law, and the program’s continued efforts to place privately-funded...
Inspired by the “throw everything at the wall” approach utilized in climate liability cases filed by municipalities across the country, the Rockefeller-funded Conservation Law Foundation is now changing its tactics in its lawsuit against Shell Oil Co. Chief Judge William Smith of the U.S. District...
A new report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) calculating the costs of adapting to sea level rise is little more than a poorly masked public relations endeavor, seeking to fuel the campaign pressuring cities across the United States into pursuing litigation against energy...
Climate activists Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran took to Twitter Wednesday, posting links to a new cache of Mobil documents that they hoped would help expand their #ExxonKnew campaign to include #MobilKnew. The activists allege that the documents, which explain grants given to various organizations...
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is in the hot seat over her use of two privately-funded attorneys in her state government office whose work is focused on clean energy, climate change, and prosecuting oil and gas companies. The attorneys are paid via a $6 million...
Last year wasn’t great for lawyers or environmentalists in the courts. Even though cities, counties, and one fishermen’s association filed lawsuits against major energy companies, none of the cases have gotten very far in the court system and many were thrown out entirely. That doesn’t...
State attorney general offices in Massachusetts and New York are continuing a worrisome trend of refusing to release their communications with environmental activists to the public. In Massachusetts, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is refusing to release its correspondence with Matthew Pawa and...