WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Democrats in Washington are “hell-bent" on demonizing all domestic energy production, according to Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who says the grilling of Big Oil executives in committee Thursday will serve to destroy traditional energy while pumping up the green industrial complex.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Climate plaintiffs are fighting to keep litigation out of federal courts because they hope to find "sympathetic" state judges to rule in their favor, says a new amicus brief filed by government watchdog group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA).
HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – Exxon wants a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong that alleges the company misled the public about climate change.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – As the U.S. Supreme Court decides where Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the energy industry should be heard, defendants are asking a D.C. federal judge to keep the district’s case in his court.
MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Like other climate change plaintiffs, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wants his case heard by a state judge rather than federal.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – One of the latest in the “barrage of tort suits” over climate change should be heard by a federal judge, Exxon recently argued in a court filing.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – An anti-pesticides group wants its lawsuit against Exxon over climate change to be heard somewhere else than federal court.
MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Exxon and others want to fight a lawsuit by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in federal court, claiming he is pushing an agenda crafted by private lawyers to regulate the energy industry.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Legal Newsline) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is being pushed for information on the two assistants he hired that are paid not by taxpayers but by climate change activist Michael Bloomberg.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Exxon Mobil has filed a lawsuit in federal court that seeks to give it an edge in a 31-year-old, $50 million dispute.
FORT WORTH, Texas (Legal Newsline) – A conflicted Texas appellate court thinks climate change litigation pursued by private lawyers is “ugly” but ruled it is powerless to help ExxonMobil fight it.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a federal judge’s dismissal of climate change lawsuits against oil companies including ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, setting the stage for them to be tried in a more favorable California state court.
BALTIMORE (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has refused to reverse a remand order sending the City of Baltimore’s climate lawsuit to Maryland state court, virtually ensuring ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil companies will face trial seeking billions of dollars in damages in an unfavorable venue they were hoping to avoid.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A conservative energy-policy group has sued to unseal parts of ExxonMobil’s defense in a failed climate lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James, saying “the public has an absolute right to know” about communications between the New York AG and a private lawyer pushing potentially lucrative climate change lawsuits around the country.
PASADENA, Calif. – A potentially precedent-setting hearing on Wednesday saw Northern California communities seeking relief against oil companies whose fossil fuel emissions plaintiff attorneys contend are damaging residents with rising sea levels and environmental degradation.
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge in Boston is considering a motion by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey to send her lawsuit, which is similar to one in New York that recently failed, against Exxon back to a commonwealth court.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Final submissions are being made ahead of oral arguments in an appeal by two cities against a federal district court decision to dismiss their public nuisance action against five fossil fuel companies.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) The flagship lawsuit of the #ExxonKnew climate litigation campaign was sent to the bottom today after a New York judge rejected all claims brought by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, including fraud charges the state’s lawyers unexpectedly dropped at the close of trial.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - ExxonMobil has asked the judge who heard New York’s highly publicized climate lawsuit against it to issue a ruling saying the state failed to prove its securities fraud claims at trial, hoping to defuse copycat lawsuits by Massachusetts and other plaintiffs across the country accusing ExxonMobil of manipulating public opinion about global warming.
