The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force President Biden’s newly created National Climate Task Force to comply with federal open-records laws, accusing the administration of illegally ignoring requests for information.
The free-market think tank filed a request on Feb. 17 for documents from the task force’s first meeting on Feb. 11 but has received “no response whatsoever,” even though the Freedom of Information Act requires federal agencies to respond within 20 days.
“The task force is directing climate change policy for this country, but its workings have remained totally private,” said CEI general counsel Sam Kazman in a statement. “The President may have declared climate change to be an existential threat, but that doesn’t make the Task Force an extralegal entity.”
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeks to subject the task force to FOIA requests, describing the entity as “the nerve center of a fundamental redirection of the entire federal government’s regulatory policymaking.”
Created Jan. 27 by executive order, the task force is led by Gina McCarthy in her role as the president’s National Climate Adviser, a newly created position, and includes White House officials as well as cabinet-level members from at least 21 agencies.
“Put simply, the National Climate Task Force is the nerve center of a fundamental redirection of the entire federal government’s regulatory policymaking,” said the lawsuit.
The task force has already been active, credited by the White House with developing the 2030 emissions target of reducing U.S. greenhouse gases by 50% from 2005 levels, but the “readout” released after the first meeting “lacked key details—such as any documents shared at the meeting,” said the institute.
“And as the meeting was held in private, the public is thus unaware of what was actually discussed,” said the statement.
The White House issued “readouts” after the first three task force meetings explaining what was discussed, who presented briefings, and what decisions were made, such as Ms. McCarthy’s request to form an interagency working group on “drought-impacted communities,” according to the April 21 readout.
So far, however, the task force has failed to provide CEI with requested materials including transcripts, shared documents, and communications records.
“Defendants McCarthy and the Task Force are thereby improperly denying Plaintiff access to agency records in violation of FOIA,” said the complaint.
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Climate change is only viewed as an existential threat by crooked politicians like Biden, Kerry and McCarthy et al. As they make their plans to destroy our economy with the GND, they will work like hell to keep those plans secret. Leftist democrats are professional liars and thieves that should never be trusted or believed!
“Secret plans” based on “secret science”. How characteristically leftist. They will “follow the science” in secret.
It won’t be ‘secret’ for too long. We pee-ons will find out all about it all too soon. “It is forbidden…” and “You must…”
Biden and his fellow Globalist only want those who push this Global Warming/Climate Change idea
Evolution and Global Warming/Climate Change are both about the same unproven theories being taught as Fact in our Schools
Let me tell you straight; Biden, Kerry, McCarthy and the wizard behind the curtain Obama are disciples of lord Satan. Every word they utter is a lie! They will rob you blind while you’re alive. When you die they’ll dig you up and burn your remains!