Climate Working Group Must Follow Advisory Law, Court Rules (1)

Environmental advocates won their bid Wednesday to get a federal court to declare the Climate Working Group has to answer to the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

“This Court rules that the Climate Working Group was not assembled to ‘exchange facts or information’ in a manner that would bring it into the claimed exception,” said Judge William G. Young of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

The Climate Working Group was formed by Energy Department Secretary Chris Wright and was composed of five scientists who contradicted established research on ...