As the Supreme Court considers a ruling on a key climate litigation case, Republicans are engaged in a protracted battle against what they allege is a network of federal, academic, and nonprofit organizations attempting to sway judges in support of thousands of climate lawsuits being brought against energy companies.
On July 19, President Donald Trump sharply criticized the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Truth Social, stating that it had “published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change” for federal judges.
Trump also threatened to defund the group, which is mostly financed by federal grants, stating: “Taxpayers should not be funding Climate Fraud, and Judges should never have relied upon it.”…