New York AG Sued Over Stonewalling of his Climate Crusade

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, one of the attorneys general leading a climate investigation of Exxon Mobile, has now been sued because he stonewalled public information requests by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.

The group said it was “forced to file suit against that office to compel release of public records relating to the Schneiderman-led climate crusade to silence political opponents.”

E and E Legal has targeted the Democratic Attorneys General who were part of the “Green 20” coalition, attempting to force them to release public records about their probes. The group said the attorneys general “continue a collective slow-walk and even stonewall.”

“The embarrassment and failure of this climate crusade is no reason for the New York Attorney General to defy open records laws to keep public records secret,” said Craig Richard, E and E Legal’s Executive Director. “Emails we have obtained from Schneiderman’s counterpats in other states reveal that his friends abandoned him as soon as the threat of exposure emerged.”

Schneiderman’s office took months before producing a single document in response to E and E Legal’s Freedom of Information Law requests.