Thursday, December 1, 2016

New York Attorney General Ordered to Release Climate-Change Pact

 
by Austin Yack

Last week, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman and “Green 20” — an attorney-general-led coalition seeking to limit climate change — received yet another blow to their ongoing legal crusade against ExxonMobil when New York acting supreme court justice Henry Zwack ruled in favor of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank that has received funding from ExxonMobil. 
 
As a result of the ruling, Schneiderman must comply with CEI’s FOIA request for the common-interest agreements made between his office and other state attorneys general, as well as his agreements with environmental activists. CEI believes that its FOIA request will reveal evidence that the lawsuit is politically motivated. (Just days before Zwack’s ruling, U.S. district judge Ed Kinkeade expressed concern to this effect, and ordered Healey — and, potentially, Schneiderman — to testify in Dallas on December 13.) 
 
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Source: National Review

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