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Supreme Court hears dispute with big implications for climate-change litigation Robert Barnes © Drew Angerer/Getty Images A gas flare from the Shell Chemical LP petroleum refinery lights up the sky in Norco, La. There is likely to be a titanic legal battle one day between local governments and the fossil-fuel energy companies that officials blame for the climate-change damage they say their cities have suffered. But the warm-up act at the Supreme Court on Tuesday was the kind of argument only a lawyer could love. BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore could answer the important question of where a showdown should occur: in state courts, which plaintiffs such as the city consider a more hospitable setting, or in federal court, where the multinational oil and gas companies feel their chances are better.

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