Throughout the past four years, climate change activists have been secretly coordinating with one another regarding ways to prosecute individuals, organizations, and companies that are their ideological foes. They met to develop a strategy to use RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), which was intended to provide stronger weapons for prosecuting organized crime, against those who speak out against the Obama administration's war on fossil fuels.
More recently, the activists, including Naomi Oreskes and Bill McKibben, have coordinated with Attorneys General (AG) culminating with a March 29 press conference, led by New York AG Eric Schneiderman and joined by former Vice President Al Gore. There the "unprecedented coalition"--as Schneiderman's press release called it--was announced: the newly formed AGs for Clean Power. Though "vague"on their specific plans, 17 AGs (16 Democrats and 1 Independent) have, as the Huffington Postreported: "committed to pursuing an all-levers approach"to, as Gore said: "hold to account those commercial interests that have been, according to the best available evidence, deceiving the American people, communicating in a fraudulent way."
