WVA AG Investigating Shady Climate Cult Groups

They really do not like it when the scales of justice are aimed their way

West Virginia Investigates Climate, Environmental Groups Over Alleged ‘Deceptive’ Acts

West Virginia’s Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation into many of the state’s leading environmental groups, demanding a decade of internal records involving their fundraising and climate change advocacy as part of a probe into “alleged unfair or deceptive acts,” court records show.

The environmental groups decried the inquiry as a sham, and at least two asked a judge Thursday to dismiss subpoenas from the attorney general’s office they described as harassing and overly broad.

Attorney General JB McCuskey has urged federal authorities to investigate and defund certain climate advocacy organizations and said protecting the state’s fossil fuel energy industry from what he’s characterized as overreaching liberal climate and energy policies is a priority of his office.

The subpoenas seek records related to the groups’ public statements on climate and energy, internal deliberations and requests for donations. The documents offer few details of any alleged deception but say they concern “an investigation into alleged unfair or deceptive acts” and invoke “other possible violations” of the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act.

“This investigatory subpoena from our state’s attorney general is nothing more than a fishing expedition intended to stifle our collective voice in our advocacy for clean water, protected public lands and healthy communities,” Jennie Smith, executive director of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition — one of the groups that went to court to fight the subpoena — said in a statement.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The sad part about so many “environmental” groups, besides being part of the scam climate cult, is that they tend to not spend much of that money they raise on the stated mission. Most goes to things like salaries, perks, raising more money, and paying off politicians.

David Cole, a Georgetown Law professor and First Amendment scholar, called the West Virginia investigation “frivolous” and said the subpoenas should be quashed.

“If government officials can start prosecuting nonprofit groups because they disagree with the political view they take on a matter of public concern, that would chill a tremendous amount of protected political expression,” Cole told The Associated Press. “The proper place to fight this out is in the court of public opinion and in the labs of scientists — not in criminal investigations that essentially seek to weaponize the criminal arm of the state to take sides in a political debate.”

Interesting, because they had no problem with the Biden and Obama admins going after Conservative and Christian groups. Maybe because those groups did not engage in fraud that put money in Democrat pockets. Also, he can talk about the court of public opinion, but, the cult groups engage in a lot of climatelawfare, filing suits left and right to try and force Everyone Else to follow the cult’s beliefs.