Three Strikes and You’re Out! New York Swings And Misses Again With Climate Litigation
January 15, 2025 | Mandi Risko
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 climate litigation campaign – and a poignant moment of déjà vu – New York City’s lawsuit against American energy producers yesterday has been dismissed (for the second time). The Supreme Court of the State of New York’s ruling firmly rejected the city’s claims that the companies had misled the public about their products and their sustainability commitments.
This defeat marks the third blow to New York – city and state – in their attempts to “take down” American energy companies.
Recall that the national campaign kicked off in the state in 2015 when former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman met with Greenpeace and the Rockefeller Family Fund, who spoon-fed him a novel climate lawsuit cooked up by academic activists in La Jolla, California years before. The state’s case was dismissed in 2019 after what was marketed as “the climate trial of the century,” with the decision labeling the claims “hyperbolic”.
https://eidclimate.org/three-strikes-and-youre-out-new-york-swings-and-misses-again-with-climate-litigation/
