Joined by more than twenty state attorneys general and several trade associations, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey last week announced a lawsuit against New York over the state’s newly enacted climate superfund bill, which seeks to arbitrarily fine energy producers for their contributions to global climate change. In comments to Fox News Digital, AG
Read More...It turns out that New York City is hardly the only climate plaintiff to face the January blues this year. Yesterday, the Anne Arundel Circuit Court dismissed Annapolis and Anne Arundel’s climate lawsuits against America’s energy industry, delivering yet another devastating blow to the already struggling, nationally-coordinated climate litigation campaign. Notably, less than a year
Read More...Supporters of climate litigation are leaning into alternative strategies to extract dollars from the American energy industry. Last Tuesday, Vermont’s state Senate passed a “climate superfund” bill that would fine American energy companies to pay for the effects of climate change. Similar legislation has also been introduced in Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, and most recently
Read More...Billionaire “philanthropists” like the Rockefellers often claim to care about noble causes like the security of the United States’ European allies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But it turns out that a campaign targeting liquified natural gas (LNG) exports–which will cause harm to both of those causes–takes priority. A recent Wall Street Journal article details how the Rockefellers, Michael Bloomberg, and other
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Nice Win…for Now This is great news. It’s the latest such win. But, the lawyers hired by the Rockefellers won’t be
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