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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.
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A car lies half-submerged in a Baltimore sinkhole caused by flash flooding in May 2018. Photo credit: Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun/TNS/Newscom
A car lies half-submerged in a Baltimore sinkhole caused by flash flooding in May 2018. Jerry Jackson/
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Attorneys for Big Oil and the city of Baltimore will square off next week in a Supreme Court battle that could change the trajectory of more than a dozen closely watched U.S. climate change lawsuits.
The nation s highest bench will hear arguments Tuesday in
BP PLC v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a case that hinges on a hyper-technical question that has been raised in a number of challenges aiming to force oil companies to pay up for local climate impacts.