New York Post

Schneid and seek

- Julia Marsh

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderm­an is trying to hide e-mails about his support of a climate-change policy that’s being targeted by President Trump, a conservati­ve group charged in Manhattan court Tuesday.

The organizati­on, E&E Legal, sued Schneiderm­an last year claiming he led a group of AGs in silencing climate-change skeptics.

The group says Schneiderm­an is refusing to disclose documents that show collaborat­ion with anticlimat­e-change activists.

The AG is entitled to keep intraoffic­e communicat­ion private, but must hand over informatio­n sent to outside parties. At issue is an October 2015 e-mail that Schneiderm­an’s aide Christina Harvey sent to her boss and an outside political consultant, Kristie Stiles.

E&E’s lawyer, Francis Menton, says the AG’s Office waived any right to keep the documents private by sending them to the operative. The AG’s lawyers say Harvey just wanted Stiles to print the e-mail, and didn’t intend for her to read it.

The judge said she’ll rule on the matter in the coming weeks.

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