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Climate researchers are facing a deluge of public records requests related to climate attribution science, which is playing a growing role in lawsuits against major industrial polluters. The volume of requests has noticeably increased this year, says Lauren Kurtz, CSLDF Executive Director. “It’s totally a surge,” she adds.
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Amid the growing push by the Trump administration to block lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, conservative organizations are filing dozens of open records requests at public universities–the latest strategy in a decades-long campaign to discredit climate scientists. “I have never seen this many open records requests in such a short time,” said Lauren Kurtz, CSLDF executive director. “There is a very concerted effort to derail the state climate litigation cases going on.”
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