SUPREME COURT: BP v Baltimore sets stage for broader climate brawl eenews.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eenews.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published: Monday, May 17, 2021
Supreme Court. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
The Supreme Court. Francis Chung/E&E News
Oil and gas industry attorneys celebrated a Supreme Court ruling today that reopened federal litigation over climate liability, but lawyers for one city embroiled in the nationwide battle noted that their fight is far from over.
The Supreme Court issued a 7-1 opinion this morning siding with oil and gas firms in
BP PLC v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a narrow procedural dispute stemming from the Charm City s climate liability case.
But the justices declined to issue a sweeping decision that would have derailed a slew of other state and local lawsuits seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry financially liable for the impacts of global warming.
Published: Monday, April 26, 2021
Biofuel tanks in Iowa. Photo credit: National Renewable Energy Lab/Flickr
Biofuel tanks in Iowa. National Renewable Energy Lab/Flickr
A divisive battle over who must comply with renewable fuels requirements reaches the nation s highest bench tomorrow.
During remote oral arguments, the Supreme Court will weigh three petroleum refineries pleas for relief from biofuel blending requirements that they say are too financially onerous to their businesses.
The fact that the Supreme Court, which only hears a tiny fraction of cases that come its way, even agreed to consider the case has come as a surprise even to the petroleum industry and to legal scholars.
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