A reporter changed a story to hide activists’ lobbying of Democrats in Congress to hold a “Waxman-style” hearing to probe energy companies over their knowledge of climate change.

The shift in the United States to building more natural gas power plants has led to the reduction of more than 2.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions since 2005, making it the largest source of energy-related carbon savings, recent data from the Energy Information Administration show.

The case might just be best described as “a show about nothing,” just not nearly as funny.

While activists (and their funders) would much prefer this case to be about #ExxonKnew—and have tried to change the focus toward those allegations—the media isn’t buying it.

The repetitive, stumbling performance and failure to have a contingency plan in place tested Justice Ostrager’s patience and threatened the attorney general’s case.