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Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits
« on: January 08, 2025, 05:09:20 pm »
Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits
Donald J. Kochan | January 08, 2025
 

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear cases with major impacts for the separation of powers and for left-leaning states’ and municipalities’ ability to use their state courts as pawns to establish national climate change policy. To preserve federalism, the stability of the rule of law, and separation of powers in our Republic, it is imperative that the Supreme Court grant certiorari to take the cases.

The climate-change suits percolating across the country, of which these petitions for certiorari are representative, feature an alliance between fee-driven plaintiffs’ attorneys and frustrated environmental activists. They want to get de facto regulation and retroactive liability imposition illegitimately from activist courts that they know would be impossible to get in the sunlight of the democratic process.

Together, these lawyers and activists are seeking to unconstitutionally turn courts into climate policymakers.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/08/supreme-court-send-message-climate-change-lawsuits/
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Re: Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2025, 03:49:11 pm »
Supreme Court lets Hawaii sue oil companies over climate change effects
SCOTUS won't answer "recurring question of extraordinary importance" to Big Oil.
Ashley Belanger – Jan 13, 2025 11:27 AM
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On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to decide whether to block lawsuits that Honolulu filed to seek billions in damages from oil and gas companies over allegedly deceptive marketing campaigns that hid the effects of climate change.

Now those lawsuits can proceed, surely frustrating the fossil fuel industry, which felt that SCOTUS should have weighed in on this key "recurring question of extraordinary importance to the energy industry" raised in lawsuits seeking similarly high damages in several states, CBS News reported.

Defendants Sunoco and Shell, along with 15 other energy companies, had asked the court to intervene and stop the Hawaii lawsuits from proceeding. They had hoped to move the cases out of Hawaii state courts by arguing that interstate pollution is governed by federal law and the Clean Air Act. ...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/supreme-court-lets-hawaii-sue-oil-companies-over-climate-change-effects/
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Re: Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2025, 03:50:12 pm »
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Without fossil fuels, Hawaii would be third-world you-know-what. Big Oil should close down in Hawaii for a week or so and test whether Hawaiians want energy or climate activism.
10:24 AM · Jan 14, 2025

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Re: Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2025, 03:56:44 pm »
National Defense and Interstate Commerce ... Federal issues
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