Activist Group’s Secret Online Chats Trained Judges On Climate Litigation Tactics
Sen. Cruz condemned the environmental group for secretly coaching judges on climate cases in private forum chats.
by Emma Colton and Breanne Deppisch July 23, 2025, 2:28 PM
An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges organized a years-long, nationwide online forum with jurists to promote favorable info and litigation updates regarding climate issues – until the email-style group chat was abruptly made private, Fox News Digital found. [emphasis, links added]
The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) was founded in 2018 by a left-wing environmental nonprofit, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and pitches itself as a “first-of-its-kind effort” that “provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.”
But critics, such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, say CJP is funded by China and left-wing activists for one purpose.
“They fund CJP to train judges,” Cruz
https://climatechangedispatch.com/activist-group-climate-litigation-train-judges/
