For many months, conservative lawmakers and political operatives have been targeting the scientists and lawyers behind the Climate Judiciary Project, a program meant to educate the courts about climate science, alleging that their effort constitutes a conspiracy to influence federal judges and persuade them to rule against the oil industry.
Now, just as congressional investigators are escalating a...
The symposium organized by Alston & Bird, a law firm representing Chevron, raises questions about the role of law firms and their clients in shaping scientific discourse on climate change. Critics have pointed out patterns of bad faith, forced binary choices, and authority games in the event's framing, suggesting that it was designed to create doubt about the reliability of attribution science and its application in court.
However, others have argued that the debate over the admissibility of att...