Sep 25, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min · 14 segments
It’s Climate Week again in New York City. Hollywood celebrities, titans of global industries, high-ranking government officials from around the world, climate justice advocates, and other assorted…
Jim LakelyHost
Sterling BurnettPanelist
Linnea LuekenPanelist
Anthony WattsPanelistTom HarrisGuest
I know Tom's probably going to have to bug out here pretty soon, so we'll see how many of these we can get through before he has to go.
Headline, Bloomberg-backed climate group paying salaries of Democratic state AG officials quietly shuts down amid congressional legal scrutiny.
After I read this, ask yourself, how is this even legal? How is this not bribery? You know, you can answer these questions for yourself.
A group housed at the New York University School of Law and backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg quietly closed its doors in late August amid congressional scrutiny into its funding and operations.
The so-called State Energy and Environmental Impact Center's signature initiative involved placing paid climate-focused fellows, unquote, in Democrat-controlled state attorney general's offices nationwide as those offices sued the oil industry and other energy providers.
It continued to update its public database tracking state attorney general actions relevant to its climate priorities until August 31st.
It also released an episode of its in-house podcast, Recharged with the State Impact Center, less than three weeks prior to that date.
And in its 2025 year in review report released last December, the center indicated that it would continue operating throughout all of 2026.
But prior to its closure, the center was coming under increased pressure for effectively paying the salaries of state law enforcement agencies that were pursuing lawsuits in line with the center's priority of going after energy providers.
The center, which did not announce the closure in a press release or a social media post, now states on its website that it is, quote, historical material as it existed on August 31, 2026.
While much of the website remains intact, its contact email is now listed as a private non-NYU address, and a page identifying members of the center's advisory board has been removed.
Its now former executive and deputy directors no longer list the center as their current place of employment on LinkedIn, according to a Washington Free Beacon review.
The disappearance of the center comes as it faced multiple congressional and state-level investigations over alleged ethics issues related to its funding and its practice of paying the salaries of officials it placed in state attorney general offices.
Media reports and lawmakers often referred colloquially to those officials as quote, Bloomberg fellows, because Bloomberg helped found the center in 2017 with two seed grants of worth $2.8 million each.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened an investigation into the center last year stating that its activities, quote, raised questions as to whether participating state attorneys general are acting on independent judgment to serve the best interests of their state's citizens, or maybe just carrying out the agenda of the climate alarmists.
I know Tom's probably going to have to bug out here pretty soon, so we'll see how many of these we can get through before he has to go.
Headline, Bloomberg-backed climate group paying salaries of Democratic state AG officials quietly shuts down amid congressional legal scrutiny.
After I read this, ask yourself, how is this even legal? How is this not bribery? You know, you can answer these questions for yourself.
A group housed at the New York University School of Law and backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg quietly closed its doors in late August amid congressional scrutiny into its funding and operations.
The so-called State Energy and Environmental Impact Center's signature initiative involved placing paid climate-focused fellows, unquote, in Democrat-controlled state attorney general's offices nationwide as those offices sued the oil industry and other energy providers.
It continued to update its public database tracking state attorney general actions relevant to its climate priorities until August 31st.
It also released an episode of its in-house podcast, Recharged with the State Impact Center, less than three weeks prior to that date.
And in its 2025 year in review report released last December, the center indicated that it would continue operating throughout all of 2026.
But prior to its closure, the center was coming under increased pressure for effectively paying the salaries of state law enforcement agencies that were pursuing lawsuits in line with the center's priority of going after energy providers.
The center, which did not announce the closure in a press release or a social media post, now states on its website that it is, quote, historical material as it existed on August 31, 2026.
While much of the website remains intact, its contact email is now listed as a private non-NYU address, and a page identifying members of the center's advisory board has been removed.
Its now former executive and deputy directors no longer list the center as their current place of employment on LinkedIn, according to a Washington Free Beacon review.
The disappearance of the center comes as it faced multiple congressional and state-level investigations over alleged ethics issues related to its funding and its practice of paying the salaries of officials it placed in state attorney general offices.
Media reports and lawmakers often referred colloquially to those officials as quote, Bloomberg fellows, because Bloomberg helped found the center in 2017 with two seed grants of worth $2.8 million each.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened an investigation into the center last year stating that its activities, quote, raised questions as to whether participating state attorneys general are acting on independent judgment to serve the best interests of their state's citizens, or maybe just carrying out the agenda of the climate alarmists.
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