The State Department is being sued for concealing documents and information related to the agency’s use of outside groups and individuals to promote the Paris climate deal during the Obama-era.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market group based in Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the State is refusing to act on a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for more information regarding backstage work on the agreement.
“Americans should know the extent to which the State Department orchestrated outside experts and groups in pushing talking points about the need for the Paris Agreement and its alleged nontreaty status,” CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman said in a press statement.
CEI already has evidence that the “State Department has something serious to hide regarding its attempts to grease the skids for the energy-crippling climate plan that President Trump has rejected,” he added. The lawsuit would buttress some documents the group has acquired about the climate agreement.
The group has spent the past two years targeting remnants of the previous administration. CEI analysists Chris Horner and Marlo Lewis, for instance, published a paper last year arguing former President Barack Obama ignored the U.S. Constitution during the signing phase of the deal to make his climate policies immune to legal challenges.
Lewis said Obama should have submitted the Paris agreement to the Senate for approval. The Obama administration argued the Paris agreement did not need Senate approval because it was an extension of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was ratified in the 1990s.
Paris meets the Department of State’s criteria to be called a “treaty by virtue of its costs and risks, ambition compared to predecessor climate treaties, dependence on subsequent legislation by Congress, intent to affect state laws, U.S. historic practice with regard to multilateral environmental agreements,” reads Horner and Lewis’s report.
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We are learning quickly that the entire Obama Administration was a corrupt house of cards. Their hubris of never being caught was predicated entirely on Hillary’s victory. That didn’t work out so well…
Since when did the Demac-Rats let anything like the U.S. Constitution get in their way of creating the New World Order(NWO)and a One World Goverment all under the Useless Nations Obama like most all liberals and radical greens hate the Constitution and want to replace it with various Useless Nations worthless treaties the fact in a Letter to the editor a layer for Earth Justice said we need to err in the name of saving species which means Ignore the science and the facts just like they did with DDT and CFC’s and like their doing with Global Warming/Climate Change