On February 11, oral arguments in the City and County of Boulder’s activist-backed climate lawsuit will be heard by the Colorado State Supreme Court. That means today may be the beginning of the end of Boulder’s attempts to pin the blame of climate change on American energy producers. As Axios Denver reports, Boulder “faces an
Read More...Remember the Boulder climate lawsuit? It certainly doesn’t get much attention these days in the state, but a recent legal development could spell trouble for the case. The Colorado Supreme Court recently signaled it may intervene in the ongoing lawsuit, adding uncertainty to Rockefeller-financed climate nuisance litigation campaign that’s seen a series of recent setbacks
Read More...On Wednesday, President Biden will travel to Colorado to attend an event at Camp Hale with Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and other elected officials where he is expected to designate a new national monument and to tout the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Economy Act. But the timing of the visit is interesting given that the greatest
Read More...The U.S. Supreme Court may announce as soon as this week whether it will take up a key jurisdictional question in the climate litigation campaign, setting up the potential of a huge setback for lawsuit supporters. At issue is whether the climate lawsuit brought by the City and County of Boulder and the County of
Read More...Coming off a U.S. Supreme Court win last year, energy companies have once again petitioned the high court to resolve a key jurisdictional issue in the climate litigation campaign, this time citing the lawsuit filed by the City and County of Boulder and the County of San Miguel, which has struggled to build local support
Read More...Three years ago, when the City and County of Boulder and the County of San Miguel introduced its climate lawsuit, the municipalities’ elected leaders made it unmistakably clear that their case was solely about seeking damages to pay for the costs associated with climate change. As it turns out, that’s not exactly true. During a
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