Ted Cruz claims without evidence that China is funding U.S. climate lawsuits

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However, Cruz’s office has not offered evidence that China or a China-linked nonprofit that Cruz identified by name has funded climate lawsuits in the United States. That scrutiny has focused more recently on climate litigation as cases proliferated around the country. Cruz has claimed that China is funding climate lawsuits in the United States. So far, the climate lawsuits filed by states and localities have had mixed results. And in March the justices turned down a request by Republican attorneys general to stop climate lawsuits filed by states including California, Connecticut, Minnesota and Rhode Island.