The Left accuses conservatives and libertarians of engaging in censorship and weaponizing the courts when they’re the ones who are (i.e. projection).

In July, the Energy Department released a report challenging many of the mainstream narratives surrounding climate change. The report, which was authored by the Climate Working Group (CWG)—a team of five climate scientists and economists—was drafted to “encourage a more thoughtful and science-based conversation about climate change and energy,” according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. 

“To correct course, we need open, respectful, and informed debate. That’s why I’m inviting public comment on this report,” the energy secretary wrote in the report’s foreword. The publication has indeed opened up debate, garnering nearly 60,000 comments in the Federal Register. But it has also introduced a series of legal challenges against the agency and the CWG. 

On Thursday, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by two environmental groups—the Environmental Defense Fund and Union of Concerned Scientists—against the Energy Department, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the CWG. 

Green groups filed the lawsuit in order to block the Trump administration’s deregulation efforts and they obviously judge shopped due to the case being head in a Massachusetts federal court. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is using Charlie Kirk’s approach to have respectful and informed debates with his opponents, and (not surprisingly) environmentalists won’t have it and want to censor their political rivals.

The Left hates innovation if not capitalism overall since it makes it harder to control of enslave people. Hence they back schemes, like human-induced climate change, in order to scare people into submission. Hopefully, the lawsuit’s plaintiffs will lose.