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  1. January 31, 2020

    Climate Suit Backers Say 9th Circ. Ruling Is Irrelevant

    The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling that only the federal executive and legislative branches can tackle climate change policy does not apply to state and local government suits seeking to hold fossil fuel companies liable for climate-related infrastructure damages, an attorney for the government plaintiffs said Friday.

  2. January 30, 2020

    9th Circ. Ruling Puts Climate Suits In Fed Court, Chevron Says

    A lawyer for Chevron Corp. says the Ninth Circuit's recent ruling that only the executive and legislative branches can tackle climate change policy makes clear that the climate torts fossil fuel companies currently face are a federal matter, not a state one.

  3. January 01, 2020

    Energy Cases To Watch In 2020

    Climate change will take center stage in energy-related courtroom battles in 2020, including liability suits against energy giants and suits challenging rollbacks of climate regulations, but there's also no shortage of non-climate cases with big implications for the energy industry. Here are nine cases that energy attorneys will be closely watching this year.

  4. July 29, 2019

    Calif. Cities Look East In Bid To Keep Climate Suits Alive

    San Francisco and other California local governments on Friday told the Ninth Circuit that Rhode Island's success in keeping its climate lawsuit against several energy companies in state court supports their efforts to keep their similar lawsuits out of federal court.

  5. July 15, 2019

    Energy Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2019

    Climate change will dominate the energy-related court cases attorneys will watch in the second half of 2019, while fights over FERC's bankruptcy authority and state-level disputes over energy partnerships and oil and gas rights will draw plenty of eyeballs. Here are seven cases that energy attorneys will be watching in the second half of the year.

  6. July 02, 2019

    SF, Oakland Push For Climate Suit Revival At 9th Circ.

    Oakland and San Francisco told the Ninth Circuit that their California state law-based nuisance claims against Chevron Corp., BP PLC and other oil giants over climate-change-related damage to local infrastructure should never have been removed to federal court and dismissed.

  7. May 20, 2019

    City Climate Suits Preempted By CAA, US Tells 9th Circ.

    The federal government on Friday told the Ninth Circuit that Oakland's and San Francisco's suits seeking to hold Big Oil liable for climate change-related infrastructure damage are preempted by the Clean Air Act and trample over constitutionally enshrined foreign policy authority.

  8. May 13, 2019

    Cities' Climate Suits Can't Proceed, Oil Cos. Tell 9th Circ.

    Chevron Corp. told the Ninth Circuit that Oakland and San Francisco cannot use state-based claims to force it and several other oil giants to pay billions for alleged climate change-related infrastructure damages, arguing the case's dismissal was dictated by federal policy.

  9. March 14, 2019

    SF, Oakland Push 9th Circ. To Revive Climate Change Suits

    San Francisco and Oakland urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to revive their suits seeking to make Big Oil pay for climate change-related infrastructure damage, arguing a California federal judge wrongly kept their cases out of state court and concluded their claims sought to globally regulate fossil fuels.