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Boulder’s Climate Campaign May Finally Be Put To Rest

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

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Energy Companies, Legal Experts Call Out Biden Admin’s Flip-Flopping on Climate Precedent

In two separate briefs filed late last month, energy companies pushed back on the Biden administration’s recent support for Honolulu’s climate lawsuit, arguing for Supreme Court intervention and highlighting the inconsistency with positions held by previous administrations of both parties. The U.S. Supreme Court is discussing the companies’ petition at their conference this Friday, meaning

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Climate Litigation Proponents Take Aim at Utilities. Don’t They Have Enough Losses on Their Hands?

Multnomah County’s experimental climate lawsuit keeps getting weirder. After years of pressure from climate activists to add gas utilities to the list of industries targeted by lawfare, the Oregon County finally granted their wish by adding a local utility company to its complaint, which already features over a dozen defendants. It’s a déjà vu moment

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“American Taxpayers Are Bearing the Cost”: Joint Congressional Report Details Dark Money Behind Climate Lawsuits

Climate lawsuits are unquestionably about the policy aims of wealthy funders – a state judge in Maryland made this clear in her recent dismissal of Baltimore’s climate lawsuit, describing it as it an attempt to change national climate policy through “the back door.” Now, a new Congressional report first published by the Washington Free Beacon

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Rockefellers Attempt to Salvage Sputtering Climate Campaign with California Recycling Lawsuit

One year after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state’s climate lawsuit at New York Climate Week, on Monday the state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta announced another lawsuit at this year’s activist confab, this time targeting plastics recycling. With two public nuisance lawsuits against energy providers over the last two years, it’s clear Bonta is fully committed

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South Carolina Attorney General Asks Court to Dismiss Charleston Climate Lawsuit; Puts Mayor in Tricky Spot

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson last week urged a court to throw out Charleston’s climate lawsuit against energy producers – marking a unique instance of a state attorney general calling out the lack of merits of a municipality’s case. In a amicus brief filed on September 4, Wilson cited the recent dismissal of Baltimore’s lawsuit and noted that the lawsuit

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Recently Obtained Contracts Show NJ, Chicago Plan to Pay Millions to Dark-Money Backed Law Firm for Climate Suits

Recently uncovered outside counsel agreements between New Jersey, Chicago, and plaintiffs’ law firms provide fresh details about the millions of dollars private firms stand to make if they prevail in their mission to “take down” American oil and gas companies. Remember, cities and states have gone to great lengths to hide these contracts from their

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Baltimore Climate Lawsuit Is Dismissed, Adding to Losses for Nationally-Coordinated Campaign

In a massive loss for the nationally-coordinated climate litigation campaign, a Maryland state judge dismissed the City of Baltimore’s lawsuit against energy companies last week. The ruling firmly rejects the cornerstone legal theory behind the litigation, explaining that state law cannot be used to advance national energy policy and address a global phenomenon such as

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How Many Ways Can California Seek Oil Companies’ Profits?

This week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an amended complaint in the state’s climate lawsuit doubling down on greenwashing allegations and appealing to a new state law that gives the attorney general a backdoor to seek damages in the form of oil companies’ profits without even attempting to show harm to California consumers. Facing

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