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  1. August 09, 2021

    4th Circ. Told Baltimore Climate Claims Are Federal At Heart

    Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil Corp., and other energy companies combating Baltimore's suit seeking to put them on the hook for climate-related infrastructure damages renewed and expanded their efforts to keep the case in federal court after the U.S. Supreme Court mandated a second look.

  2. December 14, 2020

    The Biggest Energy Rulings Of 2020: Part 1

    The past year has been flooded with major rulings affecting the energy sector, with courts weighing in on climate change litigation and the boundaries of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's authority. In the first of a two-part series, Law360 breaks down the biggest energy-related court decisions of 2020.

  3. March 25, 2020

    Chevron Urges Courts To Ignore 4th Circ.'s Climate Ruling

    Chevron Corp. has said the Fourth Circuit wrongly concluded that Baltimore's lawsuit seeking to put fossil fuel companies on the hook for climate change belongs in state court and its decision should be ignored by circuit courts weighing similar suits.

  4. March 10, 2020

    RI, Calif. Say 4th Circ. Backs State Court Climate Suits

    Rhode Island and California municipalities on Monday told federal appeals courts that they should heed the Fourth Circuit's ruling that Baltimore's lawsuit seeking to put fossil fuel companies on the hook for climate change belongs in state court.

  5. March 06, 2020

    4th Circ. Nudges Climate Torts Toward High Court Review

    The Fourth Circuit pushed climate-change tort litigation closer to the U.S. Supreme Court's doorstep when it ruled Friday that Baltimore's suit seeking global warming-related infrastructure damages from fossil fuel companies belongs in state court.

  6. March 06, 2020

    4th Circ. Keeps Baltimore Climate Suit In State Court

    The Fourth Circuit on Friday affirmed that Baltimore's suit seeking to put fossil fuel companies on the hook for climate change belongs in state court, the first federal appeals court to weigh in on whether such suits can be sustained under state law.

  7. February 28, 2020

    Chevron Cites 5th Circ. Ruling In Climate Suit Venue Fight

    A Chevron Corp. lawyer has told several courts that a recent Fifth Circuit ruling supports arguments that climate change suits against fossil fuel companies belong in federal court because the companies were at times working at the government's behest.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. December 12, 2019

    4th Circ. Mulls Over Where Baltimore Climate Suit Belongs

    Baltimore's suit accusing oil giants of misleading the public about the dangers of fossil fuels may be no joke, but the heavy subject matter didn't stop the Fourth Circuit from cracking up during oral arguments in Richmond, Virginia, this week.