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Emails Reveal How Leonardo DiCaprio Funneled Cash To Fund Climate Nuisance Lawsuits

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s nonprofit foundation provided grants to a ‘dark money group’ that, in turn, funneled money to a law firm spearheading climate nuisance lawsuits across the country, according to emails reviewed by Fox News. Digital.

Correspondence between Dan Emmett, a prominent philanthropist, and Ann Carlson, a climate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), revealed in 2017 that the two worked with the law firm Sher Edling to raise money for their efforts to sue oil companies for alleged climate change deception on behalf of state and local governments, according to emails obtained by the watchdog group Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO).

In their emails, Emmett and Carlson discuss how Chuck Savitt, Sher Edling’s director of strategic client relations, had sought Emmett’s support and had already received support from Terry Tamminen in his role as CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a position he held between 2016 and 2019. When the emails were exchanged, Carlson, who is now a senior official in the Biden administration, was serving as co-director of UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the advisory council that Emmett still presides.

“Chuck Savitt who’s heading this new group behind the lawsuits has been looking for our assist,” Emmett wrote to Carlson on July 22, 2017. “Terry Tamminen in his new position with the DiCaprio Basis has been a key supporter.”

Emmett also forwarded a message Savitt sent him three days earlier on July 19, 2022, asking for his support, according to the records. Savitt mentioned in that email that Sher Edling’s first lawsuits were filed with the support of the Collective Action Fund for Accountability, Resilience, and Adaptation, a fund managed at the time by dark money group Resources Legacy Fund (RLF).

“Wanted to let you know that we filed the first three lawsuits supported by the Collective Action Fund on Monday,” Savitt had told Emmett. “These precedent-setting cases call on 37 of the world’s leading fossil fuel companies to take responsibility for the devastating damage sea level rise – caused by their greenhouse gas emissions – is having on coastal communities.”

Savitt also offered to set up a meeting between Emmett and Vic Sher, a partner at Sher Edling.

The email correspondence took place two months before the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation publicly announced it would contribute $20 million in grants to various climate and conservation causes. The group’s announcement, which has since been deleted but remains archived, included a grant to the RLF “to support precedent-setting legal actions to hold major corporations in the fossil fuel industry liable,” closely mirroring Savitt’s language.

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