The climate science section of a new judicial reference manual has been scrapped after a group of Republican attorneys general complained it was biased against the fossil fuel industry.
The Federal Judicial Center made the move a week after 27 attorneys general called for the climate chapter to be struck. Some of the same attorneys had also asked lawmakers to investigate — and potentially defund — the center, which serves as the education and research arm of the federal court system.
In a letter Friday to West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, the Federal Judicial Center said it had “omitted” the climate science chapter from its latest Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
The removal marks a significant victory for Republican efforts to thwart a raft of climate lawsuits that the fossil fuel industry has warned could cost it billions of dollars. On Friday, the Republican Attorneys General Association congratulated its members on X, writing that the “Federal Judicial Center has announced they are removing ridiculous WOKE climate science from judicial manuals.”
