Massachusetts Attorney General Muara Healy, in a letter to David J. Hayes, the Executive Director of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (NYU – DC), is looking for a lawyer to serve as he Assistant AG. A Tomás de Torquemada for Climate Change policy.
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Torquemada was the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition and it looks like Healy wants to use her office to litigate New England into compliance with the globalist green energy/economic agenda.
Over the next two years, we expect there to be significant opportunities for the NYU Fellow to assist with the AGO’s ongoing climate policy work in the energy and transportation sectors, which will be focused on ensuring Massachusetts and neighboring states meet the long-term commitments set forth in the Global Warming Solutions Act and in the Paris Agreement.
Healy wants to use experienced private-sector hired-gun attorneys in environmental justice to force compliance with the left’s job-killing climate agenda. They would represent the interests of the state, activists, anyone with a climate ax to grind.
- Prosecuting civil enforcement and cost recovery cases, seeking to produce the greatest results in terms of compliance and deterrence, environmental and public health benefits, and financial recovery;
- Handling defensive cases, seeking to provide effective representation to support the policy choices made by state agencies and officials in implementing our environmental protection laws; and
- Undertaking affirmative, non-enforcement work to develop and pursue innovative ways to further environmental protection exercising the Attorney General’s role as the Commonwealth’s chief law officer, such as developing or supporting legislative or other policy proposals; intervening, where appropriate, in siting disputes; investigating companies for investor and consumer protection violations related to environmental and climate claims; and entering into Brownfields liability agreements to further the clean-up and redevelopment of contaminated.
On one side, the hired-gun can sue private companies, towns, or individuals. On another, the threat of legal action is meant to encourage state legislatures (or local governments) around New England to take up the left’s agenda to prevent lawsuits in the first place on issues like, say, the Transportation Climate Initiative.
Healy is creating an easy out for governors who might be on board with these ideas but not the “costs,” like their re-election. If someone makes a lot of legal noise, the media will play it up, and weak-kneed politicians can more easily saddle locals (especially families and small businesses) with higher energy and transportation costs.
Hey, lawsuit, we had to do it!
They can use lawfare to force expensive and even dangerous left-wing energy and economic policy across the region.
I would (also) not be surprised if this was a way to fund green activist groups and launder money to Democrats. If I recall correctly, under Obama, these groups were encouraged to sue the government over whatever crime they could manage. The government would put up little to no fight and agree to a financial settlement.
Democrat-run Federal agencies used the legal system to funnel millions in tax dollars to private groups who would further their activism and, where permissible, donate those dollars to local Democrats.
Healy appears to be setting the table from something similar. Use legal brownshirts to “smash the windows” and intimidate compliance with global energy policy aimed at almost no one but the United States.
A plan that doesn’t work all that well if Biden does not successfully steal the election.
Healy is expecting he will EO the Paris Climate Agreement back into favor. With that and other America-crushing plots on the front burner, the activist AG can send her legal horde out to ravage the local countryside, enriching her state and perhaps a few local activists along the way
I hope Healy doesn’t have any skeletons in her closet. When NY AG Eric Schneiderman tried this, and the increased media attention destroyed him.
I wonder if we can get that lucky?
I wonder if Sununu and company, confronted with such a tactic, would fold like a cheap tent?
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