Supreme Court Allows Major State, Local Government Climate Change Litigation to Proceed on Merits
Legal Planet
APRIL 26, 2023
The justices declined to take up numerous cases in which government entities have sued oil, gas and coal companies, seeking compensation for the climate change-related damage the jurisdictions they claim to have suffered, and which they attribute to the greenhouse gas emissions the companies’ products have released into the atmosphere.
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