“For years, David Schnare, with funding from polluting interests, has hounded me and other climate scientists, abusing open records laws…
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Trump Adds Lawyers with History of Harassing Climate Scientists to Transition TeamLearn More
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Press | News
Why Scientists Are Scared of Trump: A Pocket GuideLearn MoreThe guide is the creation of a group called the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. One of the group's founders, Joshua Wolfe, and its executive director, Lauren Kurtz, made the decision to write it on the day after the election. "There is a lot of fear among scientists that they will become targets of people who are interested in science as politics, rather than progress," Wolfe told me in an e-mail.
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Past Event
CSLDF and AGU Co-Host Symposium on Law and ScienceLearn More
On Wednesday, December 14, 2016, CSLDF will team up with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to host a morning symposium at…
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Past Event
CSLDF on Science FridayLearn More
Our Executive Director, Lauren Kurtz, discussed CSLDF’s work protecting climate scientists on Science Friday. The segment, titled “Science in the Crosshairs,”…
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News
CSLDF in the Guardian: Climate scientists are under attack from frivolous lawsuitsLearn More
Reposted from The Guardian: Today’s climate scientists have a lot more to worry about than peer review. Organizations with perverse…
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News | Amicus Briefs
CSLDF Files New Brief in Support of Protecting Climate ScientistsLearn More
On Friday, March 25, CSLDF filed a brief (available here) as amicus curiae before the Pima County Superior Court in…
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New Lawsuit Over Climate Scientists’ EmailsLearn More
December 28, 2015 Since July, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has engaged in an ongoing campaign for internal National Oceanic and…
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News | Amicus Briefs
Arizona Court Approves CSLDF Amicus Brief—And E&E Legal Simultaneously Files OppositionLearn More
There is no provision under the Arizona Court of Appeals appellate rules for opposing an amicus brief. Yet on the same day the Court entered its approval, CSLDF's amicus brief was opposed by E&E Legal.
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News | Amicus Briefs
CSLDF Files Legal Brief Supporting Protection of Climate Scientists Against HarassmentLearn More
Yesterday, CSLDF filed a brief as amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” urging the Arizona Court of Appeals to…
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News
Climate Scientist Threatened with Investigation by Member of Congress for Purported “Partisan Political Activity”Learn More
October 10, 2015 A climate scientist who was the lead signatory on a letter to President Obama, supporting a proposed…
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