This month, California State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow Californians, private insurance companies, and the state’s insurer of last resort to sue oil and gas companies for wildfire damages. The new bill takes the premise of California’s climate lawsuit – which is already on shaky legal ground, as similar suits are
Read More...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...Frank Sinatra says if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. So what does it mean when it’s repeatedly made clear that you just can’t make it in New York? That question is one the climate litigation campaign is grappling with today. In yet another demoralizing defeat for the nationally-coordinated
Read More...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
Read More...2024 was a tumultuous year for climate lawsuits, to say the least. Throughout the year, radical campaigns opposed to American energy continued to fall flat, highlighting their lack of alignment with the priorities of the American people. Highlights – or lowlights, rather – include the failure of state campaigns to result in lawsuits and voters’
Read More...In two related amicus briefs filed Tuesday, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice encouraged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow climate lawsuits against American energy companies move forward – but hinted that the legal approach may run into serious obstacles. While arguing that climate suits are not yet ripe for Supreme Court review, both of US
Read More...Just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey showed his appreciation for the industry that supplies about half of his state’s residents with the fuel to warm their houses in winter – a larger share than any other state – and about 41 percent of the state’s electricity generation by filing a
Read More...Once a central plank of the Biden-Harris administration’s climate agenda, the White House’s enormous environmental justice (EJ) spending programs are instead rife with “cronyism,” according to a new report from the House Energy & Commerce Committee. The Inflation Reduction Act’s EJ programs routed billions in taxpayer dollars to the Environmental Protection Agency, which was then
Read More...With election day just weeks away, new data shows energy costs continue to be a pivotal issue for voters in key battleground states. According to a recent poll conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute (API), it was revealed that nearly nine in 10 voters in Pennsylvania and six other key
Read More...On Tuesday, the California State Assembly approved Governor Gavin Newsom’s new refinery supply mandate, which now heads to the state Senate. The proposed legislation will require oil refiners to keep a minimum gas reserve on hand, and gives the California Energy Commission the power to require oil refiners to provide resupply plans to address losses
Read More...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
Read More...Last week, in what must have been a slow news cycle, outlets – including The New York Times and E&E News – reported on a new activist “report” that essentially tallied up the number of climate lawsuits in the world, leaving out a few key details in the process. On Thursday, just weeks ahead of
Read More...The Matterhorn Express Pipeline, due to begin service in September, will significantly increase natural gas pipeline capacity in the Permian Basin, according to a new analysis from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This new capacity will be able to transport natural gas currently “locked up” in the Waha region to domestic and international customers, and
Read More...Well, it looks like the Rockefeller-backed campaign to push the California Attorney General to file more lawsuits targeting American energy companies is ramping up. Following the same script as last week, The Guardian is reporting on polling sponsored by the Center for Climate Integrity. And once again, they relied on the firm that comes with
Read More...The decision by CBS News to partner with the activist “news” website Inside Climate News (ICN) for a story on plastic recycling should raise journalistic alarm bells, especially when readers are left without any information or any acknowledgement about ICN’s funders and its mission to finance litigation and activism campaigns against American energy and industrial companies. Particularly troubling is the failure
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