Power The Future Files Lawsuit Seeking Public Records Exposing Climate Activists Abusing Public Offices

Category: Power the Future Power the Future
Published: 19 October 2023 19 October 2023

Washington, D.C. - Power the Future filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) lawsuit against the New York State Office of the Comptroller in the Supreme Court of New York challenging redactions and other withholdings of public records. Power The Future is seeking documents that could point to the Office's coordination with environmentalist activist groups using public offices — with fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers and pensioners — to advance their extreme agenda.

“The fact that public officials are working and spending taxpayer dollars to keep information secret is revealing,” said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director for Power The Future. “Around the country we’ve seen radical environmental groups entrench themselves in taxpayer-funded offices and the people footing the bill should get to see what’s going on. The sad fact we have to go to court to fight for public documents speaks volumes.”

Power The Future sought, through three FOIL requests, correspondence with certain green-group email domains, and other records reflecting public officials discussions of opposition to the controversial practice of "ESG" investing of public funds. Previous emails obtained by Power The Future revealed that the activist climate group CERES ghost-wrote and even placed a New York Times op-ed under the name of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and expressly as the Comptroller, arguing in favor of climate ESG climate regulations that will harm the very pensioners that Lander is supposed to serve. CERES first pitched this to State Comptroller DiNapoli, too, but only Lander accepted the provision of these outside media services. This comes as Congress continues to investigate how climate groups like CERES continue to use their influence to undermine our financial system.

However, even the records produced were heavily redacted by the State Comptroller's Office (PTF previously sued Lander's Office, which has refused to release any records at all,) raising more troubling questions about what else is being hidden from the public whom these officials ostensibly serve.

Power The Future is a 501c4 non-profit dedicated to fighting for American energy workers.

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