Sentences with phrase «funded legal attacks»
CSLDF lets scientific colleagues and the public directly help climate scientists protect themselves and their work from industry - funded legal attacks.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has attacked the government over its legislation to streamline the accounting process, arguing it lacks legal enforceability on how Ottawa spends «this $ 7 billion no - strings - attached Liberal slush fund.»
Common Sense Principles, a 501 (c)(4) group that funded advertisements attacking marginal Democrats, paid $ 550,000 to Richard Runes for legal work and $ 140,000 to Frank Sanzillo, a lobbyist, for «consulting,» it stated on a 2012 I.R.S. filing.
Sen. Marisol Alcantara, a Manhattan Democrat who angrily struck back against attacks that the IDC is emboldening the GOP and Trump's agenda, praised the new funding for immigrant legal services.
Money for low - income housing in New York City, help for unions under legal attack, funding for the infamous, murky water - discharging Niagara Falls wastewater plant: done, done and done.
And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund is hosting talks on the legal attacks faced by climate scientists, on Thursday, May 7th, from 6 - 7:30 pm at Columbia Law ScLegal Defense Fund is hosting talks on the legal attacks faced by climate scientists, on Thursday, May 7th, from 6 - 7:30 pm at Columbia Law Sclegal attacks faced by climate scientists, on Thursday, May 7th, from 6 - 7:30 pm at Columbia Law School.
«It's very telling to confirm that E&E Legal has received Arch Coal funding since their attacks on climate science and harassment of scientists are just what the coal industry is counting on to survive,» Brendan DeMelle of DeSmogBlog told CMD.
Update: another coal - funded lawyer with a history of attacking climate scientists, E&E Legal senior fellow Christopher Horner, has also been added to Trump's transition team.
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CLSDF), a non-profit organization based in New York City, provides free support and resources to scientists who are dragged into litigation or otherwise threatened with legal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated grLegal Defense Fund (CLSDF), a non-profit organization based in New York City, provides free support and resources to scientists who are dragged into litigation or otherwise threatened with legal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated grlegal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated groups.
It knows as both the legal aid funder of clinical negligence litigation and as the defendant compensator (as it is in the vast majority of clinical negligence cases) that access to justice is extremely costly to it in costs and damages, and that by attacking access to justice its outlay in both regards will be reduced substantially.
Provided free legal representation for a surviving family and one injured victim of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to recover through the Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
The Legal Services Act: this is not only worrying the high street but also larger firms who fear attack from well - funded, but as yet unidentified, outsiders.
A lawsuit has been filed against a NJ - based company, RD Legal Funding, who allegedly targeted first responders of the 9/11 terror attacks to scam them out of settlement money.