By: Kevin Killough | Just the News
The committee is investigating two attorneys involved in key climate cases to see whether they were consulted on materials that were used in a program that instructs judges overseeing climate cases.
The House Judiciary Committee is probing connections between two attorneys involved in key climate lawsuits against energy companies and a judicial training project that’s come under fire for allegedly biasing judges against the plaintiffs.
The committee sent letters Wednesday to Roger Worthington, owner of the law firm Worthington and Caron, and David Bookbinder, director of law and policy at the Environmental Integrity Project.
Worthington is the lead attorney for Multnomah County, Oregon, in the county’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil and other oil companies. The lawsuit is seeking $52 billion for damages stemming from a heatwave event in 2021, which the oil companies allegedly caused.
While the event brought high temperatures for several days, and is associated with 72 deaths in Multnomah County, it didn’t break the state’s temperature record, which was 119 degrees set in 1898, long before the burning of fossil fuels was putting significant amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
In its letter to Worthington, the committee is asking the attorney for documents and communications with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and its Climate Judiciary Project (CJP).
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