Climate group scrubs judges' names from website after unearthed chats unmasked cozy ties

An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges has removed and anonymized the names of jurists who worked with the activist network and praised its activities, following a Fox News Digital report exposing an online forum promoting climate litigation updates.

The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP), founded in 2018 by the left-wing Environmental Law Institute, describes itself as providing judges with "authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law," according to its website.

The group has been accused by Republican lawmakers, such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, of working to "train judges" and "make them agreeable to creative climate litigation tactics." In July, Fox News Digital reported on CJP's yearslong, nationwide forum where jurists privately exchanged clim...