Environmentalists Are Fighting Our Living Standards in Court
by Craig Rucker
April 3, 2026
Environmental groups and climate-obsessed local governments are waging aggressive climate lawfare across America — using lawsuits to bypass Congress, the U.N.’s stalled global schemes, Trump administration policies and Supreme Court rulings. They are determined to impose their anti-fossil-fuel agenda on the rest of us and hammer our living standards.
More than 20 states, counties and cities cling to the alarmist claim that manmade climate change poses an “existential threat” requiring the rapid elimination of fossil fuels.
Egged on by groups such as EarthRights International, Youth Climate Strike, Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion and the Environmental Law Institute (which pushes one-sided “education” on judges), they’re suing a handful of major oil companies, alleging these firms “disrupted” the climate and caused billions in supposed weather and warming damages.
Their real goal? “System-level changes” to our energy, economy and society, through an indirect carbon tax that drives up fossil fuel prices until most families can’t afford them, not just locally but nationwide.
https://dcjournal.com/environmentalists-are-fighting-our-living-standards-in-court/
