#States have not been deterred. #Hawaii filed its lawsuit almost immediately after the #DOJ suit. And #Michigan recently filed a federal #antitrust lawsuit against 4 #oil companies & the American Petroleum Institute [ #API], the oil industry’s main trade group.
The petition before #SCOTUS in the #Boulder case hinges on the question of whether #federal law “precludes #state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused” by #GreenhouseGas #emissions.

#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange

…The #Trump admin had urged #SCOTUS to take up the #Boulder case & stop the growing number of #climate lawsuits. In a brief filed in September, senior #DOJ officials wrote that the threat of endless litigation & a patchwork of conflicting #regulations across the country loomed over the case. If it were allowed to continue, they wrote, “then every locality in the country could sue essentially anyone in the world for contributing to global #ClimateChange.” [sounds good to me]

#SCOTUS #law

#States have not been deterred. #Hawaii filed its lawsuit almost immediately after the #DOJ suit. And #Michigan recently filed a federal #antitrust lawsuit against 4 #oil companies & the American Petroleum Institute [ #API], the oil industry’s main trade group.
The petition before #SCOTUS in the #Boulder case hinges on the question of whether #federal law “precludes #state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused” by #GreenhouseGas #emissions.

#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange

The #Trump #DOJ sued #Hawaii & #Michigan in a bid to stop those #states from filing #climate lawsuits, & industry allies have redoubled their efforts to get the courts & lawmakers to block the cases. The conservative legal scholar John Yoo, who submitted an amicus brief in the #Boulder case, wrote in a recent essay that the justices must “end environmental extortion of American energy.” [ummm, what now? If they knowingly harmed the public, the public has a right to sue for damages TYVM.]

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#SCOTUS announced Monday that it had agreed to hear a major #climate lawsuit in which the #oil industry is claiming it shouldn’t be sued in #state courts over its role in #GlobalWarming. The outcome could have wide bearing on dozens of other lawsuits around the country.

The court said it would hear arguments on a petition by #ExxonMobil & #Suncor, a Canadian #energy giant, in a lawsuit brought by the city & county of #Boulder, Colorado.

#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

#SCOTUS announced Monday that it had agreed to hear a major #climate lawsuit in which the #oil industry is claiming it shouldn’t be sued in #state courts over its role in #GlobalWarming. The outcome could have wide bearing on dozens of other lawsuits around the country.

The court said it would hear arguments on a petition by #ExxonMobil & #Suncor, a Canadian #energy giant, in a lawsuit brought by the city & county of #Boulder, Colorado.

#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

In today’s #Boulder #DailyCamera

In today’s #Boulder #DailyCamera