Report Finds Climate Judge-Training Group Tied To Plaintiffs' Lawyers
Michael Toth's Civitas Institute report says the Environmental Law Institute trained over 2,000 judges while sharing lawyers with climate plaintiffs.
- Michael Toth's Civitas Institute report, published September 2026, names the Environmental Law Institute's Climate Judiciary Project.
- The project trained more than 2,000 judges on climate science and law since launching.
- Toth documents overlapping lawyers and funders between the training project and climate plaintiffs' law firms.
Why it matters: A judge trained by one side's lawyers before a trial begins has already decided it.
Civitas Institute (Michael Toth), "A Finger on the Scales: Climate Litigation and the Campaign to Influence the Judiciary" ↗ · Sep 13, 20269/13/26