Taxpayer dollars, climate advocacy and judges: AGs raise alarms over federal grant

Two dozen Republican state attorneys general called on the Trump administration to investigate what they say is the use of tax dollars to influence judges in climate cases.

The state attorneys general, in a letter to Trump Cabinet officials, point to federal grants issued by the National Science Foundation to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, or NASEM, to produce a reference manual for judges. The attorneys general allege that activists helped shape the content of the manual’s chapter on climate law.