The US supreme court begins its new nine-month term hearing arguments Monday in a high-stakes case in which big oil companies are attempting to strike a fatal blow against lawsuits that seek to hold them accountable for the climate crisis.
In Suncor Energy versus the County Commissioners of Boulder County, local officials in Boulder are suing Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil in state court to force the companies to share a portion of the costs that climate change has imposed on local taxpayers. However, Exxon and Canada-based Suncor are arguing that federal law prevents state courts from hearing Boulder’s climate change lawsuit.
If the supreme court justices side with Boulder or decide that the case is not in their jurisdiction, then it would continue in state court. But if the fossil fuel industry convinces the justices, the decision could apply not only to the Boulder case, but also to dozens of other climate cases brought by state and local governments around the US.
They’ll grant big oil with whatever they want.
and Americans will do nothing about it…
I think it’s not that they won’t do anything about it, it’s that the majority of them are fine with it. It is a country filled to the brim with awful pieces of shit. Even many of the ones that seem decent are just as selfish as the rest of them. As an American, I can say so much fucking worse about this country than anything you could fathom.
