Just one week after Hoboken, New Jersey filed a lawsuit against a number of energy manufacturers in the fossil fuel space, Charleston, South Carolina and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings have sued some thirty companies for damages the plaintiffs claim are due to their municipalities from climate change effect induced by the companies’ business operations. […]

On September 2nd Hoboken, New Jersey became the latest municipality to join a growing list of state and local governments to sue a number of energy manufacturers, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to overcome and adapt to the effects of climate change the lawsuit alleges the plaintiffs are responsible for. Hoboken’s lawsuit […]

Yesterday Minnesota threw itself into contention for needless energy disputes with an appeal of Enbridge’s Line 3 project by the Minnesota Department of Commerce. The appeal alleges that the state’s Public Utilities Commission wrongly granted a certificate of need to Enbridge for the Line 3 replacement project because Enbridge didn’t submit a long-term demand forecast […]