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Judges to hit key climate question: State or federal court?
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Often, when bad things happen people want to hold someone responsible, irrespective of the facts. Currently, dozens of U.S. states and cities are suing a number of privately-owned oil and gas companies and unfairly seeking to hold them responsible for global climate change.
These cases exaggerate the private corporate role in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by ignoring structural changes to the oil market since 1974, and by misrepresenting GHG sources and timelines. This legal struggle reached a critical point earlier this month when the Supreme Court heard The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore vs. BP, et. al. Although the justices confined their line of questioning to the narrow rather than broader jurisdictional issue, their decision will still