Via David
Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute
(E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman and those of other politically aligned AGs,
secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists to launch
investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the
global warming policy agenda.
These emails, obtained under open records laws, shed light on what followed after a January meeting,
reported by the Wall Street Journal
on
April 14, in which groups funded by anti-fossil fuel Rockefeller
interests met to urge just this sort of investigation and litigation
against political opponents.
Recently, after the think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute
(CEI) criticized the AGs’ intimidation campaign, U.S. Virgin Islands
Attorney General Claude Earl Walker — one of the AGs working with
Schneiderman — subpoenaed ten years of the non-profit organization’s
records relating to climate change.
The latest email release strongly suggests a financial incentive for
AGs to pursue their political opponents, rather than merely silencing
and scaring away support for those who dare disagree with their extreme
global warming agenda.