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NRDC Says West Virginia AG and House Committee Are Trying to Silence Environmental Advocates

NRDC reports that West Virginia's attorney general opened a consumer-fraud investigation and subpoenaed a decade of internal climate advocacy records, then withdrew the subpoena hours after the group prepared a First Amendment lawsuit. A U.S. House Natural Resources Committee inquiry into 19 environmental groups' litigation practices is described as a parallel effort to intimidate climate advocates.