Posted on 06/15/2024 1:28:25 PM PDT by Twotone
The Supreme Court seemed to signal interest this week in taking up a challenge launched by Hawaii against big oil companies to hold them liable for climate change, and some Democrats are suggesting the high court is "captured" for the fossil fuel industry.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Justice Department to weigh in on a petition to hear a lawsuit brought by the City of Honolulu against major fuel companies including Sunoco, Exxon and Chevron, claiming the companies’ products cause greenhouse gas emissions and global warming without warning consumers about the risks.
The city employed a series of state laws like public nuisance and trespass measures and said the companies should pay billions to the state to abate the effects of climate change like weather events, sea level rise, heat waves, flooding and global warming generally.
The high court gave DOJ no deadline for the solicitor general’s input, but its request indicates a high likelihood the court wants to hear the case.
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Well the oil companies should just stop selling oil to Hawaii.
> Well the oil companies should just stop selling oil to Hawaii.
Well, then the Hawaiians would just start using whale oil as a replacement. (So there!)
Communists are really good at solving imaginary problems which always lead to real problems.
Climate change LUNACY headed for SCOTUS?
I see demonstrations at the court and at the homes of the Justices.
By all means let the left prove global warming is caused by those oil companies.
Could be fun to see the prosecutions ratios of warming against volcanoes and that pesky Sun.
If Government agrees with Liberals it is just, fair, wise, even handed, wanting to make the world better, cats and dogs live together! But, BUT if Government disagrees with Liberals, then the leaders need to be over turned, investigated, shammed, attacked all day, all night for being evil, in the control of others, pursuing the wrong agenda, evil, NAZI agenda and then the ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS!!!
Hawaii is trying to extort billions from the oil using an unprovable premise. They cannot be allowed to
The Liberals will have 40,000 years of cold weather to think about it.
One justice said “the Aloha Spirit inspires constitutional interpretation.”
One justice said “the Aloha Spirit inspires constitutional interpretation.”
Or raise prices based on the risk of lawsuits.
It occurred to me that the klimate kooks are cut from the same cloth as those who tried to stop nuclear power expansion, but also wanted to give our nukes to the Soviet Union. We have listened to these idiots for way too long.
DO WICKARD V FILBOURN.
They should thank the oil companies for bringing climate change to the world. The rising sea waters might be used to quell those nasty volcanoes. If they invest in Canadian real estate while it’s cheap, they might be able to open pineapple and mango plantations there.
Communists are really good at solving imaginary problems which always lead to real problems.
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They never let a crisis go to waste.
Justice Thomas uses gasoline in his car. Therefore he is biased and must recuse.
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