For ignoring information requests about its attorney general’s alleged involvement in efforts to push climate change policies, the city of Washington, D.C., is now involved in a new lawsuit.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit libertarian think tank based in Washington, D.C., filed the lawsuit against the city on Wednesday as part of its continuing efforts to expose what the group believes is a scheme to push a partisan agenda.

CEI also sued D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, claiming his office allegedly ignored seven attempts by the group to seek information about any involvement.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that the group filed involve two separate climate change initiatives dating back to October 2016.

The first was a campaign by activist donors, which allegedly encouraged attorneys general to go after political opponents and hire officials sympathetic to their cause. The campaign collapsed under public scrutiny but seems to have emerged again as a second attempt underwritten by billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg (shown above left), the former mayor of New York City.

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“Public records obtained by CEI and other groups detail how the Bloomberg-funded scheme allows activist donors to pay to place prosecutors in attorneys general offices,” CEI senior fellow Chris Horner (above right) said in a statement provided to LifeZette.

“Records that have been pried out of other OAGs [office of attorney general] to date show this and the aborted 2016 campaign, which led to CEI being subpoenaed, are both unprecedented, coordinated efforts between environmental groups, plaintiffs’ lawyers, and major liberal donors using nonprofit organizations to fund staff, research, legal work and public relations to advance a partisan climate agenda,” he also said.

CEI noted that the D.C. OAG acknowledged but then ignored seven of its requests for information.

The group states that the attorney general acknowledged its numerous reminders. CEI argues this is in blatant violation of Washington, D.C.’s FOIA laws, which require a response within 15 business days.

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Attorney general offices across the country started to receive backlash when the original initiative came to light. That campaign dissolved soon after.

CEI is arguing that Bloomberg donated millions of dollars to start a similar campaign back up in coordination with the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at New York University.

That center at NYU responded to a request for comment by forwarding a piece from the liberal publication The Daily Kos. The piece maintains that Horner muddies the water to attack climate action by releasing emails “he portrays as scandalous and representative of collusion between nonprofits and governments.”

The piece also said he was a key player in a defunct environmental group funded by the conservative Mercer family.

“My children’s homework on logical fallacies this week noted ad hominem [attacks], ‘Take it as a compliment [about] the quality of your argument,'” Horner told LifeZette. “‘It is usually a sign of desperation on their part.’ Perhaps our campus friends [at the NYU center], should they wish to be viewed as the legal outfit they purport to be, might consider offering an argument against releasing public records, rather than just confessions that they don’t have an argument.”

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CEI is specifically asking for the court to order the Washington, D.C., government to comply with the law immediately and produce the requested records.

The group has sued other attorneys general and state officials to get information about their alleged involvement in the initiatives as well.

In a report on August 28, CEI said the donor-funded scheme raises both constitutional issues and ethical concerns that should be the subject of swift legislative oversight.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board agreed in a piece published last month, arguing that the ethical problems should be obvious.

A request for comment from the D.C. attorney general’s office did not yield a response as of publication time.

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