Posted on 03/11/2025 4:47:33 PM PDT by bitt
Critics warn these cases, which also target other large emitters, including utilities and industries, will drive up energy prices for consumers, if successful.
he Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a request from 19 red states hoping to stop blue state lawsuits seeking to extract money from oil companies for allegedly causing damages from climate change.
The State of Alabama was joined by 18 other Republican attorneys general, including those representing West Virginia and Wyoming, in asking the high court to stop states like California and New Jersey from seeking damages the blue states claim are caused by greenhouse gas emissions from using fossil fuels, which provide about 80% of the world’s energy and thousands of everyday products.
In January, the court declined to hear a challenge from oil companies over a lawsuit brought by the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii. These cases will now proceed in state courts. However, over the past year, state judges have tossed or narrowed the scope of multiple climate cases brought by state and local governments, including one in New Jersey, against oil companies, raising doubts about their ability to succeed in state courts.
Critics warn these cases, which also target other large emitters, including utilities and industries, will drive up energy prices for consumers, if successful.
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This could be a good thing.
If the Red States can contest the validity of Carbon Dioxide as a pollutant and a powerful Green House Gas it should do away with the entire CO2 scam.
There is more than enough science to put the theory out of our misery.
Damn SCOTUS! This mess will continue forever and people are going to get higher and higher energy prices. Forget egg prices. Worry about BTU and kWh prices!
So as a procedural ruling, the Supreme Court is allowing cases to proceed? Not ruling on any merits of the cases?
WOW! This is a conservative court too. Just imagine if it were liberal. /s
SCOTUS is not a dictatorship.
They have procedures and precident. None of these cases are “ripe”. All of them, that I can tell, are inculocutory, that is in the initial stages.
That is not where the Supreme Court likes to get involved. They want to look at cases after they are presented by both parties, not at the earliest postings.
So as a procedural ruling, the Supreme Court is allowing cases to proceed?
Not ruling on any merits of the cases?
Calmate-the SC wants these suits to go ahead in the respective states where they were filed-to accumulate as much info as possible, and letting legal opinions be expressed-attorneys refer to that sort of thing as letting the case get ripe before bringing it to a hearing/trial...
Perhaps oil companies could stop selling gas in these states?
Congress needs to get to work.
One old man Trump is doing more work than all the Republicans in Congress.
Yeah. Go figure. 😡
They do that for 99.9% of all cases, otherwise they'd be massively overwhelmed by the number of cases that should instead go through the district courts and courts of appeal first.
In an effort to mitigate any future damages, the petroleum companies just need to BAN ALL SALES AND DELIVERIES of any product to their State.
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel...
Article 3 Section 2
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.
Thank you for the Constitutional quote, Sgt. Schultze.
Did John Roberts and Amy Barrett vote with the three Marxists again?
You know folks, we can use the courts too.
We should bury Leftists with 100,000 suits per month for a
few years.
USSC is not our friend! It sides more with the corrupt evil liberals who don’t applaud a child with cancer than they side with conservatives! Sad they are willing to plunge the dagger deeper into the nation’s heart!
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