Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Monday of Boulder County’s claims that the energy company Suncor caused the county concrete harm by contributing to global climate change in a case that could open the floodgates of climate lawfare across the country. “If Boulder’s claims are allowed to go…
Los jueces conservadores mostraron su escepticismo por las consecuencias que tendría el uso de leyes estatales o locales para justificar demandas contra grandes compañías por daños globales
Justice Elena Kagan likened Boulder, Colorado’s lawsuits against oil companies for alleged climate change damages to the litany of lawsuits filed against “big tobacco” in the 1990s, as the Supreme Court considered Monday whether to allow Boulder’s landmark lawsuit to proceed. The Supreme Court…
Los magistrados de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos se mostraron escépticos ante la alegación de los gobiernos locales de que pueden recurrir a las leyes estatales para demandar a las empresas petroleras por los supuestos efectos del cambio climático.
The Supreme Court appeared split over whether to allow Boulder County, Colorado’s climate-change damages lawsuit against oil companies to proceed, with the justices appearing to have reservations about both sides’ sweeping arguments during Monday’s hearing. The high court heard oral arguments in…
Deirdre Macnab was reading her local newspaper this spring when she learned that Rio Blanco County, where she lives in northwest Colorado, had taken the side of oil companies in a major lawsuit before the Supreme Court. Suncor and Exxon Mobil were trying to get out of standing trial — the city and…
