PROVIDENCE – Two national public interest groups are suing Rhode Island's attorney general, whom the groups claim formed a "secret pact" with climate change lobbyists and other state attorneys general to prosecute those who raise questions about global warming.
On Wednesday, Washington, D.C.-based Free Market Environment Law Clinic and the Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed suit in Providence Superior Court against the Rhode Island Department of the Attorney General, seeking specific records detailing that office's collaboration with other attorneys general investigating those who disagree with the prevailing wisdom on climate change.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday nominated two Superior Court judges, an assistant attorney general and a state solicitor to serve on the Appeals Court.
The nominations of Judges Kenneth Desmond and James Lemire, State Solicitor Peter Sacks, and Assistant Attorney General Sookyoung Shin arrived with an endorsement, released by Baker's office, from Appeals Court Chief Justice Scott Kafker.
