This past March, 17 attorneys general launched a coordinated effort to investigate, pursue and prosecute companies, think tanks and other organizations that say there is little credible evidence that human “greenhouse gas” emissions are causing “dangerous” or “catastrophic” manmade climate change.
The AGs said their targets’ actions constitute “fraud” – which they described as using “polished public relations campaigns” to “muddle the truth,” “discredit prevailing climate science,” and “mislead” people about threats from higher temperatures, rising seas, floods and more severe weather. Their real goal is to intimidate and silence targeted groups, and bankrupt them with legal fees, court costs and lost funding.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heartland Institute, ExxonMobil and other “climate denier” organizations fought back vigorously, refusing to surrender their constitutional rights to participate in this vital public policy debate. The AGs’ bravado and prosecutions began fraying at the edges.
But one wonders: How will these intrepid protectors of the public interest respond to Real Climate Fraud? To intentional misrepresentations of material facts, with knowledge of their falsity, and for the purpose of inducing persons or institutions to act, with resulting injury or damage.
Will those AGs – or other state AGs, Congress, state legislatures or the Justice Department – investigate the growing list of highly questionable actions by scientists and others who receive billions in taxpayer and consumer funds for renewable energy programs and research into manmade climate cataclysm scares … to justify policies, laws and regulations that raise energy costs, destroy fossil fuel companies and jobs, force layoffs in other industries, and harm poor, minority and working class families?
The case for widespread misconduct by members of the $1.5-trillion-per-year Climate Change & Renewable Energy Complex grows more compelling, and disturbing, by the day. A complete listing and analysis would require books, but these few examples underscore the seriousness of the global problem.
Let's not forget this:
The coalition of 17 inquisitors are calling themselves “AGs United for Clean Power.” The coalition consists of 15 state attorneys general (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington State), as well as the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Sixteen of the seventeen members are Democrats, while the attorney general for the Virgin Islands, Claude Walker, is an independent.
Yes, New Mexico's AG, Hector Banderas, has joined in with Al Gore and the other extreme environmentalists on this witch hunt. Banderas says:
Attorney General Hector Balderas
announced today that New Mexico has joined Attorneys General from across the
nation in an unprecedented coalition of 17 top law enforcement officials to
protect and expand progress the nation has made in combatting climate change.
The states agreed to work together on key investigations, such as ongoing or
any potential investigations into whether fossil fuel companies misled
investors and the public on the impact of climate change on their businesses.
“We have been impacted by climate
change, and we see its drastic effects in New Mexico---extreme drought,
increased risk of severe forest fires, and the ruin of our wildlife and natural habitats,”
Attorney General Balderas said. Our efforts will ensure that progress is made
on climate change and that the public is fully aware of the effects on the
health and well-being of New Mexico families.”
See my previous posts, AGs subpoenaed over prosecuting climate change skeptics, Massachusetts AG Demands Docs From More Conservative Skeptic Groups, and the post AGs Use Exxon Probe To Target Dozens Of Conservative Groups And Scientists, which reports:
Democratic attorneys general (AG) are using the investigation into ExxonMobil’s global warming stance to target communications between the company and 142 conservative groups, skeptic scientists and other academics...The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained an unredacted version of the subpoena sent to Exxon containing the names of 88 organizations and 54 scientists, academics and other experts. Exxon’s countersuit to Walker’s subpoena says “three-quarters” of the organizations Walker is targeting “have been identified by environmental advocacy groups as opposing policies in favor of addressing climate change or disputing the science in support of climate change.”
New Mexico Senators Udall and Heinrich, and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan have long done the bidding of the enviro-left, and now we have NM AG Banderas doing the same. Are you starting to feel surrounded?
See my previous posts, AGs subpoenaed over prosecuting climate change skeptics, Massachusetts AG Demands Docs From More Conservative Skeptic Groups, and the post AGs Use Exxon Probe To Target Dozens Of Conservative Groups And Scientists, which reports:
Democratic attorneys general (AG) are using the investigation into ExxonMobil’s global warming stance to target communications between the company and 142 conservative groups, skeptic scientists and other academics...The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained an unredacted version of the subpoena sent to Exxon containing the names of 88 organizations and 54 scientists, academics and other experts. Exxon’s countersuit to Walker’s subpoena says “three-quarters” of the organizations Walker is targeting “have been identified by environmental advocacy groups as opposing policies in favor of addressing climate change or disputing the science in support of climate change.”
New Mexico Senators Udall and Heinrich, and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan have long done the bidding of the enviro-left, and now we have NM AG Banderas doing the same. Are you starting to feel surrounded?
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