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#SCOTUS could be positioning itself to shield the fossil fuel industry from all climate-related liability claims - a move that could have sweeping impacts at a time when the federal government is dismantling climate protections

www.climateinthecourts.com/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court Grants Oil Companies’ Request To Intervene In Boulder Climate Case The decision to take up the case could stall, and potentially block, efforts to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate change harms. The United States Supreme Court decided on Monday...

The court's decision comes amidst escalating efforts by Big Oil & its political allies to shut down climate liability initiatives

#SCOTUS declined a near-identical request from #BigOil last yr

This time the industry had even more backing from GOP allies

www.climateinthecourts.com/supreme-cour...

SUNCOR ENERGY, INC., ET AL. V. COMM'RS BOULDER CTY., ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. In addition to the question presented by the petition, the parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether this Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear this case.

New: The Supreme Court takes up a MAJOR climate case that asks whether federal law preempts (that is, forbids) state-level claims against fossil fuel companies for damages related to climate change.

Climate advocates urged SCOTUS not to take this up... www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

BREAKING: #SCOUTS is taking up Big Oil's petition to intervene in a climate deception lawsuit filed by Boulder, CO - a move that could stymie dozens of other pending climate cases against the industry if the court rules in Exxon's favor

Trump is Trying to Sabotage Global Climate Action Experts say the US is defying international law on climate change and has become a “climate bully."

In repealing the GHG endangerment finding, the Trump admin is trying to cripple US climate action

But it goes beyond that

They are also attempting to undermine international efforts to address this global threat

www.oneearthnow.org/p/trump-is-t...

UPDATE: The court will deliver its decision on June 25, 2026, the judges announced at the end of the trial 🧑‍⚖️ 📅

"We are hopeful that the judges will compel Total to do its part...The company's climate impunity has gone on for too long" said @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social's Justine Ripoll

"Trump is using US power to scare other countries into reducing their climate ambition" @noahjgordon.bsky.social told me. And tariffs are the main tool "the bullies in the White House are wielding."

Today #SCOTUS ruled that Trump’s "emergency" tariffs are illegal. But that might not stop him

Trump is Trying to Sabotage Global Climate Action Experts say the US is defying international law on climate change and has become a “climate bully."

Trump is not just attacking climate policies here at home & sidelining the US from international climate diplomacy

He & his administration are also actively trying to prevent other countries from adopting measures to respond to the climate crisis

www.oneearthnow.org/p/trump-is-t...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Trump Is Strong-Arming the World Out of Climate Action Washington is leveraging its power to intimidate countries that are trying to protect the planet.

The US has become a climate bully.
The sabotage of the IMO shipping levy is the most dramatic example. The pressure on Vanuatu to stop its legal efforts is the most recent.
My new piece for @foreignpolicy.com

foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/t...

And RAGA is at it again. After successfully getting a federal agency to remove the climate science chapter from a reference manual for judges, now they're demanding the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine take it off their website.

This week in #ClimateBeat: In the US, the very notion of public service journalism is under assault, at precisely the moment that it’s most needed. And climate journalism is a case in point. buff.ly/cM1IlKH

Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies - Inside Climate News The lawsuit challenges the oil major’s expansion plans and could set a significant precedent on climate responsibilities for fossil fuel companies if successful, advocates say.

French oil major TotalEnergies is on trial this week in the city where the Paris Agreement was created

Judges are examining, for the first time in 🇫🇷 history, whether a big oil company can be legally required to curb its production in line w/ climate objectives
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A new climate movement takes shape These fossil fuel protests started in Los Angeles and have spread across the country.

On Tuesday, climate activists rallied at 10 stadiums across the U.S., from Los Angeles to St. Louis to Philadelphia.

It was the first national day of protest against fossil fuel sponsorships in American sports. I doubt it will be the last.

My story: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-pr...

Valuing wildfire smoke–related mortality benefits from climate mitigation | PNAS Human-induced climate change has increased wildfire risks, associated air pollution, and health damages in North America. Despite its large potenti...

🚨🔥 NEW: Increasing mortality from wildfire smoke is directly traceable to greenhouse gas emissions. In our new paper in @pnas.org , we show that every megaton of CO2 emitted costs the US more than 10 million dollars in health costs from wildfire smoke. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Environment and Public Health Groups, and Youth, Sue Over Trump Administration’s Elimination of Climate Protections Multiple environmental and public health organizations sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday over the agency’s recission of its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public ...

Groups incl. the Sierra Club, @apha.org & others have now sued the EPA over its repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding for GHGs

Separately, 18 children represented by @youthvgov.bsky.social & @publicjustice.bsky.social brought a constitutional challenge

www.climateinthecourts.com/environment-...

Last night #Colbert was censored by his own network. Kimmel was pulled off the air last year. The same thing happened to me in 2022… I just didn't have a late night show. I was a meteorologist who got recruited to cover climate science, then told to stop saying " #climagechange.”

#censorship

Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy - Inside Climate News The suit comes as the industry and its political allies escalate efforts to shut down liability laws and lawsuits. Republicans in Congress are currently crafting legislation to shield fossil fuel comp...

Michigan argues in a new lawsuit that big oil companies and their chief trade association operated as a cartel, the latest in a string of climate-accountability cases.

BREAKING: The federal court has dismissed a greenwashing case against Australian oil producer Santos, with the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility ordered to pay the company's legal costs. The reasons for this are unknown, with publication of the decision deferred to 23 February.

Environmental Groups Vow to Stop Trump's EPA from Revoking the Endangerment Finding As global heating accelerates, the nation’s environmental watchdog is trying to muzzle its own ability to act

Big Oil's primary legal defense is that climate claims are preempted since the CAA authorizes EPA to regulate GHG emissions. That defense could now crumble

Sens. Schumer & Whitehouse said states "should take up the mantle and hold Big Oil accountable"

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/envir...

Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy - Inside Climate News The suit comes as the industry and its political allies escalate efforts to shut down liability laws and lawsuits. Republicans in Congress are currently crafting legislation to shield fossil fuel comp...

Michigan has joined nearly a dozen other states in suing #BigOil, but takes a different approach - accusing the companies of driving up energy costs by colluding to suppress competition from cleaner & cheaper alternatives

A deeper dive look at this new case

insideclimatenews.org/news/1502202...

Environmental Groups Vow to Stop Trump's EPA from Revoking the Endangerment Finding As global heating accelerates, the nation’s environmental watchdog is trying to muzzle its own ability to act

EPA has finalized its repeal of the endangerment finding. Up next - court challenges

@sierraclub.org & its NGO partners plan to sue. Some public health orgs do too

MA & other Dem-led states say they will challenge this

@youthvgov.bsky.social will petition too

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/envir...

Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.

South Fork Wind had a capacity factor of 52% last month - on par w/ NY state's most efficient gas plants

And Vineyard Wind had a 75% capacity factor during Winter Storm Fern

The data doesn't lie. #OffshoreWind works - especially during cold winter months

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Trump is wiping out all climate regulation. Big Oil may regret it. For decades, oil majors fought climate regulation. Now, they’re afraid Trump’s extreme rollbacks could leave them on the hook to pay for what they’ve done.

Great rundown from @juliakane.bsky.social & @joshvoorhees.bsky.social on how Trump EPA's move to axe the endangerment finding could backfire on #BigOil - by opening them up to greater liability risk

And now Big Oil's friends in Congress are crafting a liability shield

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As Scientists Warn of the Risk of a Hothouse Earth Trajectory, Trump Administration Cements Climate Denial as Official US Policy EPA is eliminating its primary tool to rein in climate pollution at a time when scientists say urgent action is needed to avoid “unmanageable climate outcomes.”

On the eve of EPA eliminating its GHG endangerment finding, top scientists warn that the world is getting closer to a "hothouse Earth" point of no return and that an urgent course correction is needed

www.oneearthnow.org/p/as-scienti...

Classic Green Day
American Idiot seems especially appropriate for this moment. But no lyric swap out this time #GreenDay #SuperBowlLX

Michigan Sues Oil and Gas Companies for Sabotaging Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles The suit claims there was a vast conspiracy to maximize profits despite driving a climate crisis

"Renewable energy is central to the fight against climate change, and this suit alleges that the companies have stood squarely in the way. Michigan has opened up a whole new battleground in the climate fight" said climate law expert @michaelgerrard.bsky.social

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/michi...

Trump receives 5th straight loss in offshore wind fight A federal judge sided with Sunrise Wind on Monday in its bid to lift the administration’s freeze on construction of the project.

In December the Trump admin issued stop work orders on 5 offshore wind farms that were all over 40% completed

Courts have now allowed all 5 to continue construction

www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Michigan Wants to Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Change They’re trying a novel approach: suing oil companies for antitrust violations based on their work to discourage renewables.

"MI's lawsuit makes a compelling case - if Big Oil had not colluded to suppress competition, renewables would have begun scaling far earlier than they ultimately did" - @aaronregunberg.bsky.social

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European Countries Plan Offshore Wind Buildout in the North Sea, Defying Trump The deal to deliver 100 gigawatts of clean power through cooperative projects is a key step towards enhancing energy security and reducing fossil fuel dependency.

As Trump continues to try to shut down wind energy here at home while maligning it on the world stage, Europe is embracing it as a key instrument for not only decarbonization, but energy security at a time of rising geopolitical instability

www.oneearthnow.org/p/european-c...