Groups Oppose Court Ruling Against New York Climate Superfund Law

Environmental groups are backing New York’s calls for a federal court to deny the Trump administration’s push to quickly block the state’s climate “superfund” law that requires fossil fuel companies to pay the state damages in compensation for climate change-linked natural disasters. Trump officials “allege that the [New York law] intrudes into exclusively federal affairs, but their arguments rest on misguided assumptions and lack evidentiary support,” the groups say in an amicus brief in United States of America v....