Think Tank Announces It Will Fight Government’s Demands to Turn Over Climate Change Documents

The Daily Signal reports on the subpoena sent to CEI in attempts to silence the debate on climate change. 

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank, will oppose a subpoena that demands documents related to its research on climate change and donor information, officials of the institute said in a Tuesday afternoon phone call.

“We’ve been targeted for our ideas,” Kent Lassman, the new president and CEO of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said Tuesday.
According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, “the subpoena requests a decade’s worth of communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI’s work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information.”

According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, “the subpoena requests a decade’s worth of communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI’s work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information.”

As far as the Competitive Enterprise Institute knows, its officials said on the call, it is the first nonprofit to receive a subpoena as a result of “an intimidation campaign to criminalize speech and research on the climate debate, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore.”

Read the full article at The Daily Signal.