ExxonKnews: Supreme Court clears the way for climate accountability

SCOTUS has rejected Big Oil’s pleas, allowing climate liability lawsuits to advance toward trial in state courts.

ExxonKnews

April 24, 2023

Tremendous news in the fight for climate accountability: the U.S. Supreme Court just paved the way for state and local governments to put Big Oil companies on trial for their climate lies. 

Fossil fuel companies had asked the high court to review a growing number of lower court rulings that allow climate fraud and damages lawsuits to continue making their way toward trial in state court, where they were originally filed. Today the justices turned Big Oil down. 

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