Climate Warriors’ Legal Woes a Win for the Country
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Guest Contributor
February 7, 2025
Guest post by Jason Isaac
Editor’s Note: Climate Lawfare has been a significant problem for infrastructure projects, and has worked towards forwarding climate alarmist policies, like those covered by Climate Realism, here. The following post describes recent court victories for consumers which may help defeat future lawfare.
Climate lawfare is an urgent threat to our high quality of life, but recent court decisions offer an encouraging sign for consumers and energy providers.
In recent months, three judges in Maryland and New York have dismissed outlandish lawsuits that demand billions of dollars from energy companies over climate change. If successful, these lawsuits would empower far-left cities like San Francisco or Boulder, Colorado, to set energy policy for the entire country.
Unable to garner support for their ideas among the American public, leftwing climate activists have turned to the courts to achieve their ideological goals. Using state “public nuisance” and fraud laws, they are demanding exorbitant sums in damages and forcing providers to pay for their unpopular and expensive climate agenda and infrastructure programs. The activists are deliberately filing lawsuits in areas sympathetic to their cause, circumventing Congress to impose big-spending projects and hoping to make national climate policy.
What kinds of projects are we talking about? Imagine your city buys a new fleet of electric snowplows. Imagine your neighborhood is repurposed into a walk-only “15-minute city.” All that social engineering will be bankrolled by climate lawfare.
If it sounds undemocratic, that’s because it is.
https://climaterealism.com/2025/02/climate-warriors-legal-woes-a-win-for-the-country/
