This Oct. 8, 2019, file photo the logo for Chevron appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Chevron Corp. says it will acquire Noble Energy in an all-stock deal valued at $5 billion. …A Maryland judge has tossed the City of Baltimore’s climate-change lawsuit against 25 major oil and fossil fuel companies, saying the claims were untimely and fell outside of state law.
The lawsuit was originally filed in 2018 and is one of several that big oil companies have been battling across the nation. That case is pending before the justices as they weigh whether or not to grant a review during the next term, which begins in October.Litigation filed by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies allege they are liable for damage caused by climate change.Local officials had sued the energy companies in state court, seeking redress from physical damage they contend was due to climate change.