October 22, 2019
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.
October 02, 2019
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.
August 28, 2019
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.
August 19, 2019
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.
July 31, 2019
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.
July 15, 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.