In the past two weeks, climate litigation has grown to span the breadth of the United States. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear arguments regarding the jurisdiction of Baltimore’s climate lawsuit against energy manufacturers. At question is the proper venue for the case to be heard: state or federal court? […]

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 […]