Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate
Rightwing US thinktank claimed in report that non-profit holding trainings is corruptly influencing the courts'
A rightwing organization is attacking efforts to educate judges about the climate crisis. The group appears to be connected to Leonard Leo, the architect of the rightwing takeover of the American judiciary who helped select Trump's supreme court nominees, the Guardian has learned.
The Washington DC-based non-profit Environmental Law Institute (ELI)'s Climate Judiciary Project holds seminars for lawyers and judges about the climate crisis. It aims to provide neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science of climate change as it is understood by the expert scientific community and relevant to current and future litigation", according to ELI's website.
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