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Supreme Court Lets Climate Change Lawsuit Proceed
The court’s brief order addressed a threshold question: Should climate suits filed by state and local governments be heard in state or federal court?
The oil companies had asked for the Supreme Court to intervene after a federal judge ruled that Baltimore's lawsuit could proceed in state court. The companies had sought to move the litigation to federal court in order to avoid potentially expensive litigation.
The group of companies includes BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell.
Baltimore sued the energy giants last year, arguing that the companies are responsible for contributing to climate change and that the city is especially vulnerable to the resulting rise in sea level.
Supreme Court Lets Climate Change Lawsuit Proceed
All states need to sue oil companies. They have control of other cleaner power options as they want to stop the nation from moving off oil. As they don't have full control of cleaner better energy
to profit fully. The public can and the plant can just die.
The court’s brief order addressed a threshold question: Should climate suits filed by state and local governments be heard in state or federal court?
The oil companies had asked for the Supreme Court to intervene after a federal judge ruled that Baltimore's lawsuit could proceed in state court. The companies had sought to move the litigation to federal court in order to avoid potentially expensive litigation.
The group of companies includes BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell.
Baltimore sued the energy giants last year, arguing that the companies are responsible for contributing to climate change and that the city is especially vulnerable to the resulting rise in sea level.
Supreme Court Lets Climate Change Lawsuit Proceed
All states need to sue oil companies. They have control of other cleaner power options as they want to stop the nation from moving off oil. As they don't have full control of cleaner better energy
to profit fully. The public can and the plant can just die.