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@ShopFloorNAM's Manufacturers’ Accountability Project (MAP) will set the record straight about the coordinated effort to undermine and weaken US manufacturers.

Washington, DC
Joined November 2017
Today, MAP Special Counsel Phil Goldberg joined a distinguished @HudsonInstitute panel on the implications of climate lawsuits for energy security.
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A majority of voters believe that suing manufacturers does NOT improve the environment.
The responsibility of caring for the environment belongs to ALL of us.
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A majority of voters believe the most meaningful way to way to address climate change is through #innovation.
Voters agree. Tackling climate change with #innovation is more effective than with #litigation.
MAP Special Counsel Phil Goldberg called #climatelitigation “old wine in a new bottle” that trial-attorneys have repackaged to get around the Supreme Court ruling in AEP v. Connecticut at today’s panel. He later noted “we can’t litigate our way out of climate change.”
Today MAP special counsel Phil Goldberg is taking part in a @RuleofLawDfense panel on the state of #climatelitigation. Be on the lookout for a follow up blog on today’s event!
A great panel at today's @ppi "Combating Climate Change Beyond the Courts" event in Sacramento, California including Jarrell Cook of @cmta, @Lenny_Mendonca, and others!
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.@Lenny_Mendonca is here at @ppi's panel to offer insights on California's innovative economy and its role in mitigating climate change through being "inclusive, sustainable, and renewable."
Jarrell Cook of @cmta joins today's @ppi panel to discuss the collaborative role California #mfg is seeking with local municipalities to work together in reducing GHG emissions.
California Senate Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg opens today's @ppi discussion "Combating Climate Change Beyond the Courts" by reminding attendees that he has "...always focused on being both green and economically green."
.@NatlAssnAttysGn fall meeting begins this week in @CityCharleston, SC. Freshmen attorneys general have the opportunity to join their colleagues in fighting inappropriate #climatelitigation alongside the MAP. The past year alone has been tremendously successful:
13 new AGs will be introduced at this year’s @NatlAssnAttysGn fall meeting in @CityCharleston, SC. MAP hopes to continue to work alongside many of them to fight the #baseless lawsuits targeting #mfg. Together MAP and attorneys general have been able to accomplish much:
This week @CityCharleston, SC hosts this year’s @NatlAssnAttysGn fall meeting. Take a look back at the wins MAP and state attorneys general have accomplished together in the past year.
Our panel from tonight's event with @FedSoc, featuring #MAP Executive Director Lindsey de la Torre, Professor @DonaldKochan, Phil Goldberg of the Progressive Policy Institute Center for Civil Justice and others.
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Much to the dismay of the fee-seeking trial attorneys behind the suits, no #climate litigation case has had success mfgaccountabilityproject.org…
A scorecard for @ClassActionLaw & @sheredlingllp: Climate Change Lawsuits – Manufacturers: 3; Trial Lawyers: 0 mfgaccountabilityproject.org…
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