Climate justice group that trains federal judges accused of 'corruptly influencing courts'

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FIRST ON FOX: A new report by an American energy advocacy group is sounding the alarm on a legal training program that it says is "corruptly influencing the courts and destroying the rule of law to promote climate cult alarmism."

The new report released by the American Energy Institute (AEI) alleges that the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) is "falsely portraying itself as a neutral entity teaching judges about questionable climate science."

The report also alleges that CJP is a partner to more than two dozen public plaintiffs suing energy providers to hold them liable for damages resulting from climate change effects. To date, CJP has trained more than 2,000 state and federal judges, the report says.

Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, says the training program is "really like interfering with the referees before a match and before a game."

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"You're getting access to them and sharing your opinions and steering them down a certain path," Isaac said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Nick Collins, a spokesperson for the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) said the report "is full of misinformation."

"The Climate Judiciary Project is a non-partisan, educational initiative that provides judges with a mainstream,