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Posted on 02/23/2026 11:12:07 AM PST by PROCON
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case over whether states can sue fossil fuel companies for damages related to climate change.
The nation’s highest court agreed to hear arguments in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. Justices on the court asked both parties to submit briefs on whether it has constitutional authority to decide the case.
The case, based out of Colorado, challenges the authority of state and local governments to use nuisance laws in proceedings against fossil fuel companies.
“There is no constitutional bar to states addressing in-state harms caused by out-of-state conduct, be it the negligent design of an automobile or sale of asbestos,” the filing from attorneys for Boulder to the Supreme Court reads.
Lawyers for the energy companies said the Clean Air Act protects entities from being involved in lawsuits regarding emissions that span across state lines.
“Seeking injury in the form of physical harms allegedly caused by global emissions, as petitioners do, is just an indirect method of regulating interstate and international emissions,” lawyers for the oil companies wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court.
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Correct. Hopefully boulder will get slapped silly.
You can’t prove the harm cuz you can’t prove climate change is manmade....Sue mother nature...
What is a Fossil fuel??
Do we mean Petroleum products?
Or prove a specific company’s fuel caused the “damage”.
Doesn’t matter what you can prove, only what the majority believe.
“...Seeking injury in the form of physical harms allegedly caused by global emissions...”
How do you prove this? Suppose you have three oil companies operating in three different countries (China, Mexico, USA).
The USA has the strictest regulations and cleanest emissions, while China and Mexico have NO regulations and dirtiest emissions.
Which of the three will be sued? We all know the answer.
The SC can also take a case to offer a definitive ruling to shut down the nonsense cases. Cases of the sort that a ‘Loser Pays’ mandate would effectively curtail.
It would be a shame to expose the truth that "fossil fuels" don't come from fossils at all but are in fact abiotic and replenish continuously.
They will affirm the right to sue, but enforce a much higher standard of evidence and measured and actual “harm.”
I just dug out of a whole bunch of global warming. Can I sue the suers for preventing global warming?
So the USSC is hearing a case over the weather? What’s next?
I hope Boulder gets creamed. Award attorney fees.
I think you've got it backwards. The blurb isn't clear - bad journalism once again - but this story is about asking the Supreme Court to overrule the Colorado Supreme Court, which has allowed this climate change lawsuit to proceed.
It would be a very bad sign if SCOTUS hadn't taken the case.
States that believe in the Climate Fairy should ban fossil fuel.
That SCOTUS even agreed to hear this BS case doesn’t bode well.”
I hear ya. Them taking up this BS case makes me nervous as hell. They should have tossed it. It would catastrophic if this goes the wrong way.
Colorado seems to be trying to out-Kalifornia Kalifornia.
I guess I need to change to Kolorado now.
Probably be the same crazy 6-3
If they win would they sue everyone that uses it even themselves ? LOL
lol...The court asked for briefs from both parties as to whether the court even had the authority to rule in the case.
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