Power The Future Exposes Climate “Lawfare” Campaign Targeting America’s Courts
This week, Power The Future sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding an investigation into what we see as a coordinated “national lawfare campaign” by left-wing climate activists to quietly influence judges across the country.
At the center of this campaign is the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project (CJP), which has boasted about “educating” roughly two thousand judges, including federal judges, on how to view and approach climate litigation.
Here’s the problem: this isn’t neutral education. It’s behind-closed-doors advocacy designed to push one side of the climate debate directly into the courts. As our letter makes clear:
“‘Climate’ litigation actually seeks in part to impose federal energy (rationing) policy through the courts, even though policy must be addressed by the two other branches of government. The FJC [Federal Judicial Center] enlisted in this campaign by hosting seminars for judges with speakers drawn exclusively from the world of plaintiffs’ witnesses or historic amicus brief filers in support of the plaintiffs.”
In other words: while climate activists lose the debate in Congress and the White House, they’re trying to win it in secret meetings with judges. That’s not how democracy works.
Thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests, we now have uncovered troubling evidence:
Emails showing plaintiffs’ expert witnesses like Dr. Don Wuebbles and Dr. Ben Santer were brought in repeatedly to brief judges on climate science with no opposing viewpoints.
Records where CJP leaders openly bragged about judges connecting their messaging to active dockets, with one email even saying, “Just what we want to see!”
A listserv of judges and CJP leaders trading links and updates on climate litigation strategies, even praising presentations that openly discussed bankrupting America’s fuel industry.
If that isn’t coordinated lawfare, what is?
The left knows it can’t convince working Americans to embrace higher costs, rolling blackouts, or the destruction of energy jobs. So, it’s turning to the courts, where unelected judges can be pressured to do what Congress won’t.
But let’s be clear: America’s energy future should be decided by the people, not shaped by secret climate seminars behind closed doors.
That is why Power The Future is urging the Department of Justice to investigate this campaign and bring sunlight to what has been operating in the shadows for too long. Judicial education should be balanced, transparent, and free of activist capture, not a pipeline for climate extremists to push their agenda.
Energy policy belongs in the hands of the people, their representatives in Congress, and the President they elect, not in the whispered conversations between activists and judges.
At Power The Future, we’ll keep pulling back the curtain on these schemes. Because America’s energy workers, and the millions of families who depend on them, deserve fairness, not lawfare.
August 18, 2025