https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judges-climate-activists-private-forum-exposed
By Emma Colton , Breanne Deppisch Fox News
Excerpt: An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges organized a years-long, nationwide online forum with jurists to promote favorable info and litigation updates regarding climate issues – until the email-styled group chat was abruptly made private, Fox News Digital found.
The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) was founded in 2018 by a left-wing environmental nonprofit, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and pitches itself as a “first-of-its-kind effort” that “provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.”
But critics, such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, say CJP is funded by China and left-wing activists for one purpose.
“They fund CJP to train judges,” Cruz said during a June hearing. “So, quote, unquote, train in climate science and make them agreeable to creative climate litigation tactics. Then, these left-wing bankrollers turn around and fund the climate litigators who will bring these bogus cases before those same judges that they’ve just indoctrinated.
“This is like paying the players to play and paying the umpire to call the shots the way you want.”
The group, however, says it provides “neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science of climate change as it is understood by the expert scientific community and relevant to current and future litigation.”
CJP rolled out a listserv where leaders from the Climate Judiciary Project could message directly with judges. (Getty Images)
One of the efforts CJP launched included rolling out an email-styled listserv by which leaders from the Climate Judiciary Project could message directly with judges, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show. The listserv was launched in September 2022 and maintained until May 2024, according to the documents. A portal website page for the forum was previously publicly available, with an archived link saved in July 2024 showing there were 29 members in the group.
“Judicial Leaders in Climate Science,” the archived website link reviewed by Fox Digital reads, accompanied by a short description that the group was a “Forum for Judicial Leaders in Climate Science to share resources.”
