UCLA Ordered Release Of Records Showing Coordinating Law Enforcement To Attack ‘Climate Denialism’ – Do You Support That?
Chris Horner’s Government Accountability and Oversight Organization (GAO) has won the ongoing battle to uncover the reprehensible behavior of government organisations.
Via Christin Nielsen April 15, 2022
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California court has ordered the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to release records showing academics “advocating climate denialism” in coordination with prosecutors. state and local members.
The California Superior Court’s decision for Los Angeles County follows a hearing request filed in January by the Government Accountability and Oversight Organization (GAO), a government oversight group. government. Records subject to previous Public Records Act requirements were submitted initially in November 2019.
The lawsuit is intended to force the university to turn over documents allegedly in the public interest related to UCLA professors’ efforts to pursue opponents of their climate agenda.
The final judgment in the case, brought by Judge Mary H. Strobel on April 7, calling on the Regent of the University of California (the “Regent”) to deliver copies of the hundreds of pages of documents requested by the GAO.
Order comes after GAO accused UCLA on “prolonged, willful, and unprovoked failure to respond to CRPA in a timely manner [sic, CPRA] Request” after UCLA repeatedly refused to release the requested documents.
In one submit a brief test fileThe GAO said in November 2019 it had requested records “regarding the College’s work with private outsiders, including law enforcement, to develop theories of litigation against and pursued as investigative targets, opponents of the political and policy agenda shared by these external parties and certain faculty, and the Emmett Institute for Climate Change and the Environment ( ‘Emmett Center’) on which they work. “
The documents in question include communications between two individuals who, according to public records, are responsible for advancing climate litigation efforts at UCLA, a public institution.
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Apparently, UCLA used typical containment tactics to combat the release of the documents. The court didn’t have it.
Although UCLA attempted to classify many of the requested documents as “non-public records,” the court stated that, according to a previous filing, “the definition of ‘public record’ is ‘is broad and is intended to cover every conceivable type of record involved in government process. ‘”
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The incident could end the light on Big Green’s origins.
As reported earlier by Legal news, the original PRA request was initiated after a program from a “secret meeting” at Harvard University was launched by the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. The documents show that UCLA faculty members attended the meeting along with climate activists, potential funders and law enforcement officials.
The meeting provided details on how attendees can participate in state action against traditional “fossil fuel” energy companies.
The UCLA case has notable similarities with some other including alignments between academics, climate pressure groups and politically motivated campaigns to go after the major carbon producers.
GAO’s file in this case also gives new information about the Enron origins of climate science and details a long history among scholars and climate pressure groups.
Christopher Horner, attorney and former senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wrote in his statement in this case: “Enron was the first initiator of the global warming industry.
Horner explained that Enron has been participating in meetings with climate pressure groups in Washington DC and is running a campaign “to secure US participation in a ‘global warming’ treaty that several next month will be called the Kyoto Protocol.”
Horner’s statement also argued that Enron promoted the development of the climate industry with the aim of profiting from related missions.
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