On Climate, America's Least-Respected Lawmakers Come to Defense of Most-Hated Corporations

Republicans on the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee are going after attorneys general and green groups nationwide for their unprecedented effort to investigate and prosecute climate criminals.

A group of 13 Republican committee members on Wednesday sent letters to 17 attorneys general and eight environmental organizations—including 350.org, Greenpeace, and the Union of Concerned Scientists—claiming the effort amounted to a violation of climate deniers’ First Amendment rights.

“The committee is concerned that these efforts to silence speech are based on political theater rather than legal or scientific arguments, and that they run counter to an attorney general’s duty to serve ‘as the guardian of the legal rights of the citizens’ and to ‘assert, protect, and defend the rights of the people,'” the letter stated.

The lawmakers also requested documents related to the effort of the self-proclaimed “Green 20” (G20) to go after fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, which spent decades fueling public skepticism about climate change and actively working to suppress scientific data that global warming was caused by human activity.

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