SCIENCE! Democratic AGs, climate change groups colluded on prosecuting dissenters, emails show. [archive]

The push for legal action against climate change dissent dates back to June 2012 when climate groups held a workshop, Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

Last year, a coalition of environmentalists and lawmakers led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, petitioned the Justice Department to file a racketeering lawsuit against “corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.”

The collection of emails sheds new light on the close working relationship between the climate change movement and Democratic lawmakers.

Chris Horner remarks, [archive] “In the end, it seems the only parties that may be breaking the law [archive] are those colluding AGs in their scheme to silence political opposition, while seeking funds for their preferred policy agenda. It is they who need to come clean.”