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  1. October 22, 2019

    Supreme Court Won't Keep Climate Suits From State Courts

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stop three suits, brought by states and municipalities seeking to put fossil fuel companies on the hook for climate change-related infrastructure damage, from proceeding in state court.

  2. October 02, 2019

    Chevron, BP Ask High Court To Block Baltimore Climate Suit

    Energy giants including Chevron Corp. and BP PLC on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Baltimore's lawsuit seeking to hold the companies liable for climate change-related infrastructure damage from proceeding in state court.

  3. August 28, 2019

    Baltimore Tells 4th Circ. Climate Suit Remand Should Stand

    Baltimore told the Fourth Circuit Tuesday that a lower court was right in concluding that the city's suit seeking to hold Chevron and other fossil fuel companies liable for climate change-related infrastructure damage belongs in state court.

  4. August 19, 2019

    Baltimore Tells 4th Circ. Climate Suit Should Proceed

    Chevron and other oil giants shouldn't be able to delay litigating Baltimore's claim that they are liable for climate change-related damages while they fight to keep the case out of state court, city officials have told the Fourth Circuit.

  5. July 31, 2019

    Oil Cos. Tell 4th Circ. Baltimore Climate Suit Is Federal Matter

    BP PLC and other oil giants have told the Fourth Circuit that a lower court ignored the federal issues at stake when it remanded to state court Baltimore's attempt to hold the fossil fuel companies liable for climate change-related damage.

  6. 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.