In The Dugout: Chris Horner on RI DEM Head’s Scheme for Revenue In “Climate Change” Lawsuit
Climate change radicals run amok! CEO Mike Stenhouse and attorney activist Chris Horner discuss the bogus scheme of the Rhode Island DEM head Janet Coit to sidestep the Rhode Island General Assembly, and put more costs on you the consumer of gasoline. This must watch interview tells you about what is really going on behind the scenes in the progressive environmentalist circles.
Media Release: Secret Coit Notes Submitted to US Supreme Court: Center calls on Governor to Withdraw State from Climate Change Lawsuit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 1, 2020
Rhode Island Urged to Drop Climate Change Lawsuit after Exposure of Notes Indicating Unethical Court Manipulation
Providence, RI – A motion to the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS), filed yesterday, included the notes of a high-ranking Rhode Island official, indicating that the State of Rhode Island engaged in a politically-motivated perversion of the court system. The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity calls on Governor Gina Raimondo to withdraw the State of Rhode Island from its 2018 ‘climate change’ lawsuit against 14 energy producing companies.
The “friend of the court brief” filed with SCOTUS on April 30 by the transparency group, Energy Policy Advocates, featured double-sourced notes, from a multi-state 2019 meeting, of statements made by Janet Coit, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RI DEM), which unambiguously show that Rhode Island state officials were seeking to manipulate the court system to find a “sustainable funding stream” to advance their political agenda … after failing to convince what Coit termed “conservative leadership” in the General Assembly to legislatively implement her costly environmentalist agenda.
In federal court documents filed in March, and brought to broader public light in a national column last month, it is now clear that the legal premise for the lawsuit may have been unethically contrived, after notes from the secret meeting were made public.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the state by former Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and was openly supported by Raimondo and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, attempted to use a dubious “public nuisance” statute to sue companies for climate change damages. Conversely, Coit, privately told her environmentalist colleagues in a secret 2019 New York meeting, that the state is pursuing legal action in order to provide a “sustainable funding stream” for its green agenda, because they have been unsuccessful in obtaining legislative backing from the state’s General Assembly.
“For years, climate activists have perverted the courts to advance their environmentalist agenda … and it is especially alarming that high-ranking state officials have resorted to the same disingenuous tactics. It is a great perversion of our judicial branch to willfully encourage judicial activism to extract political funding, after being thwarted in the democratic process,” advised Mike Stenhouse, CEO. “We are not aware if the Governor was complicit in this deception, but it is within her authority to withdraw from this lawsuit and to end this legal charade. Further, there are serious questions that must be asked of Ms. Coit to determine her level of complicity in this illicit legal scheme.”
The damning notes were obtained by the watchdog group Energy Policy Advocates and submitted within a memo accompanying their March amicus brief for the lawsuit and filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The organization supports the argument that federal court is the proper venue for hearing the case rather than an activist state court and argues that the suit should be dismissed.
Providence, RI – A motion to the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS), filed yesterday, included the notes of a high-ranking Rhode Island official, indicating that the State of Rhode Island engaged in a politically-motivated perversion of the court system. The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity calls on Governor Gina Raimondo to withdraw the State of Rhode Island from its 2018 ‘climate change’ lawsuit against 14 energy producing companies.
The “friend of the court brief” filed with SCOTUS on April 30 by the transparency group, Energy Policy Advocates, featured double-sourced notes, from a multi-state 2019 meeting, of statements made by Janet Coit, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RI DEM), which unambiguously show that Rhode Island state officials were seeking to manipulate the court system to find a “sustainable funding stream” to advance their political agenda … after failing to convince what Coit termed “conservative leadership” in the General Assembly to legislatively implement her costly environmentalist agenda.
In federal court documents filed in March, and brought to broader public light in a national column last month, it is now clear that the legal premise for the lawsuit may have been unethically contrived, after notes from the secret meeting were made public.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the state by former Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and was openly supported by Raimondo and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, attempted to use a dubious “public nuisance” statute to sue companies for climate change damages. Conversely, Coit, privately told her environmentalist colleagues in a secret 2019 New York meeting, that the state is pursuing legal action in order to provide a “sustainable funding stream” for its green agenda, because they have been unsuccessful in obtaining legislative backing from the state’s General Assembly.
“For years, climate activists have perverted the courts to advance their environmentalist agenda … and it is especially alarming that high-ranking state officials have resorted to the same disingenuous tactics. It is a great perversion of our judicial branch to willfully encourage judicial activism to extract political funding, after being thwarted in the democratic process,” advised Mike Stenhouse, CEO. “We are not aware if the Governor was complicit in this deception, but it is within her authority to withdraw from this lawsuit and to end this legal charade. Further, there are serious questions that must be asked of Ms. Coit to determine her level of complicity in this illicit legal scheme.”
The damning notes were obtained by the watchdog group Energy Policy Advocates and submitted within a memo accompanying their March amicus brief for the lawsuit and filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The organization supports the argument that federal court is the proper venue for hearing the case rather than an activist state court and argues that the suit should be dismissed.
A video interview with Chris Horner, who represents Energy Policy Advocates, and who joined Stenhouse “In The Dugout”, can be viewed on the Center’s website, along with links to related court documents.
