Re: Dark money group wired millions to law firm suing Big Oil with Dem states

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> Biden gets caught being a crook again.

'Across the board, it's rotten,' energy expert Tom Pyle tells Fox News
Digital.

FIRST ON FOX: A major left-wing dark money nonprofit organization
earmarked millions of dollars last year to a private law firm that's
spearheading climate litigation against the oil industry on behalf of
Democrat-led cities and states, according to newly published tax filings.

New Venture Fund — which is managed by Arabella Advisors, a firm that
oversees a liberal billion-dollar dark money network — wired grants worth
a total of $2.5 million to the California-based Sher Edling in 2022 alone,
per the tax filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. Across the country, Sher
Edling has taken up novel climate litigation against major oil and gas
producers, arguing the industry has misled the public about the threat
posed by global warming.

"It smacks of a political operation," Tom Pyle, the president of the
Institute for Energy Research, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "You
have this whole self-dealing scheme where progressive donors are hiding
behind nonprofits and taking advantage of that from a tax perspective,
then funding Democrat law firms, and also, Democrat politicians and
elected officials are participating as well."

"Across the board, it's rotten," Pyle continued. "This is further evidence
that the green movement is no longer about protecting the environment.
It's about being a political, financial and organizational arm of the
Democratic Party."

JUDGE PRESIDING OVER BIG OIL CLIMATE CHANGE LAWSUIT REVEALS CONNECTION TO
PLAINTIFF'S ECO LAWYERS

Since 2016, the year Sher Edling was founded, the firm has pursued
aggressive climate-related litigation on behalf of Delaware, Minnesota,
Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco,
Baltimore, Honolulu and several local governments across the country. The
first-of-their-kind lawsuits argue that oil companies are financially
responsible for global warming and, therefore, weather events that impact
people and communities.

On its website, the firm says its climate practice seeks to hold oil
companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell accountable for their alleged
"deception" about climate change. It says that the fossil fuel industry
has known for decades that burning fossil fuels would cause global
warming, thus making the industry responsible for mass human devastation
caused by such human-induced climate change.

BIDEN NOMINEE COORDINATED DARK MONEY CLIMATE NUISANCE LAWSUITS INVOLVING
LEONARDO DICAPRIO

While the entirety of Sher Edling's funding structure is unknown, the firm
has for years raised millions of dollars from nonprofits whose individual
donors are obscured from public view, meaning anonymous individuals and
groups are supporting its climate litigation. The arrangement, though, has
attracted scrutiny from Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz,
R-Texas, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.

"As I’ve warned, it’s clear radical, left-wing dark money groups are
footing the bill for Sher Edling’s climate crusade with the goal of
bankrupting American energy employers," Cruz told Fox News Digital in a
statement. "New Venture Fund and Sher Edling’s litigious gamble is nothing
but an attempt at achieving a goal lacking majority support in Congress:
the eradication of fossil fuels."

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