Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has demanded that the University of Virginia turn over documents related to a former UVa climatology professor at the center of the so-called “climategate” scandal.
Cuccinelli, a Republican from Fairfax County, is challenging in court the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a contributor to climate change.
On April 23, Cuccinelli sent a “civil investigative demand” to UVa seeking documents related to the work of Michael Mann, a researcher who worked at UVa between 1999 and 2005 and is now at Penn State.
Environmentalists were critical of Cuccinelli’s moves.
“This is fiscally irresponsible,” said Antigone Ambrose, conservation program coordinator for the Virginia Sierra Club. “We’re making cuts [in Virginia] left and right to everything. Sen. [Donald] McEachin has estimated that the attorney general’s lawsuit will cost Virginia taxpayers between $250,000 and $500,000 if it goes all the way to the Supreme Court. That’s money that we simply don’t have.”
Read more in Saturday’s Daily Progress.
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