Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil Corp. petitioned the high court last year over a lawsuit by local governments in Colorado, asking the justices to decide if they should be sued in state or federal court.The high court’s move allows the lawsuits to proceed in state courts.
“We are confident the pending climate lawsuits in the U.S. will ultimately be dismissed,” said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., the lawyer for Chevron Corp. “Climate change is an issue of national and global magnitude that requires a coordinated federal policy response, not a disjointed patchwork of lawsuits in state courts across multiple states.
In the Suncor/Exxon lawsuit, local governments in Colorado allege that the fossil fuel companies’ activities produce greenhouse gasses that have contributed to climate change and have caused harm to the localities. The energy companies attempted to move the litigation to federal court, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit denied the request. It reasoned that in the wake of the Clean Air Act, state legal systems can govern claims over interstate pollution.
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