Annapolis files new climate nuisance suit against oil industry

February 24, 2021
Officials in Annapolis, MD, have filed a new climate nuisance suit against the oil industry in Maryland state court, the latest such action by a local entity even as Baltimore is trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow its similar case to proceed in state, rather than federal, court where the industry wants it and a raft of other such cases to be heard. The Feb. 22 complaint , Annapolis v. BP, PLC, et al., in the Circuit...


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