November 25, 2025

By Ben Adlin

The fossil fuel industry spent decades pushing a coordinated disinformation campaign to conceal its central role in climate change, saddling homeowners with a multibillion-dollar increase in insurance costs as disasters grew more frequent and severe, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.

November 24, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Vermont organic farmers and an environmental group on Friday urged a federal judge to uphold the state's climate change Superfund law, which is being challenged by the Trump administration, red states and fossil fuel industry organizations.

November 12, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The city and county of Boulder, Colorado, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Exxon Mobil Corp. and Suncor Energy Inc.'s request that it review the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to allow the city's climate change tort against the companies to proceed in state court.

November 12, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The Second Circuit has rejected Exxon, BP, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute's bid for en banc review of a lower court's decision to award attorney fees to New York City, which is suing them over allegations of deceptive practices around climate change.

November 03, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

States and business groups on Friday told a New York federal judge that the state Climate Change Superfund Act is preempted by the Constitution and the Clean Air Act and should be struck down.

October 29, 2025

By Emily Field

A Washington federal judge on Tuesday sided with the Seattle-area family of a woman who died during a 2021 heat wave, sending their first-of-its-kind wrongful death suit against oil and gas giants like Exxon back to state court.

October 20, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Exxon, BP, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute are asking the Second Circuit for en banc review of a panel's decision to award attorney fees to New York City, which is suing them for deceptive practices around climate change.

October 20, 2025

By Keith Goldberg

A group of youths filed a notice of appeal with the Ninth Circuit on Monday, seeking to overturn a Montana federal judge's dismissal of their lawsuit aimed at undoing President Donald Trump's energy-related emergency orders.

October 15, 2025

By Keith Goldberg

A Montana federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a suit by youths seeking to undo President Donald Trump's energy-related emergency orders, saying that it's beyond the power of federal courts to dictate U.S. environmental and energy policy.

October 14, 2025

By Carolyn Muyskens

The state of Michigan has implored a federal judge not to give the U.S. Department of Justice any leash to preemptively challenge states' anticipated policy moves, saying "there would be no stopping point" to the federal government's interference.

October 10, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Business groups and over 100 Republican lawmakers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision by Colorado's top court allowing Boulder's climate change tort against Exxon Mobil Corp. and Suncor Energy Inc. to proceed in state court.

October 09, 2025

By Keith Goldberg

A federal judge has dismissed San Juan, Puerto Rico's lawsuit linking energy giants' alleged concealment of fossil fuels' effects on climate change to a pair of hurricanes, saying it's indistinguishable from a recently dismissed suit brought by other Puerto Rico municipalities.

October 03, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The Second Circuit on Friday said energy giants including Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay attorney fees to New York City, which is suing them for deceptive practices around climate change, for advancing "absurd" arguments in remand proceedings.

September 30, 2025

By Carolyn Muyskens

The Trump administration told a federal court its bid to stop Michigan from filing an anticipated climate change lawsuit is not premature, as the state's attorney general has not backed down from her litigation plans.

September 26, 2025

By Mike Curley

The federal government is urging a Hawaii federal court not to dismiss its suit aiming to block the state's climate change suit against energy companies, saying it has standing because the state's action would usurp its authority to regulate pollution.

September 16, 2025

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The Trump administration, Republican-led states and business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Petroleum Institute on Monday asked a Vermont federal court to kill the state's climate Superfund law.

September 15, 2025

By Keith Goldberg

Charleston, South Carolina, has ended its pursuit of climate change-related infrastructure damages from fossil fuel companies, electing not to appeal a state judge's dismissal of the city's lawsuit last month.

September 12, 2025

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to put an end to climate change lawsuits brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies, arguing that such suits are barred by both the U.S. Constitution and Clean Air Act.

September 11, 2025

By Hailey Konnath

A Puerto Rico federal judge on Thursday mostly threw out, for good, racketeering and antitrust claims accusing a slew of energy industry companies of misrepresenting the climate dangers of fossil fuel products in causing a pair of hurricanes, though she declined to throw out some of the claims with prejudice.

August 28, 2025

By Keith Goldberg

Blocking implementation of President Donald Trump's energy-related emergency orders would harm the U.S. electric grid and economy in ways that would outweigh any purported climate change benefits, Republican-led states told a Montana federal judge.