Meet the Bloomberg-Funded Official Who is Behind the DC AG's Top Climate Initiatives

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A senior official behind a number of the Washington, D.C., attorney general office's high-profile climate-related legal actions is funded through an initiative backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg—an arrangement experts say raises serious questions about government independence.

Lauren Cullum's official title is special assistant attorney general for the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. But according to her LinkedIn profile, that position is housed at the New York University School of Law's State Energy & Environmental Impact Center, which Bloomberg helped found in 2017. The billionaire's nonprofit, Bloomberg Philanthropies, also awarded the center two seed grants worth $5.6 million at the time.

Since Cullum was embedded in the office in February 2022, she has played a central role in at least four environmental lawsuits the D.C. attorney general's office either filed or intervened in. She has also represented Washington, D.C., in more than two dozen comment letters to the federal government lobbying for more aggressive climate regulations, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of public announcements, legal filings, and court records.

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