Oil Industry Urges High Court To Hear Baltimore’s Climate Nuisance Case

The oil industry is filing its second appeal to the Supreme Court in its ongoing campaign to have a series of climate change nuisance cases heard in federal court rather than state courts where they were originally filed, with industry attorneys arguing the suits should be preempted by EPA’s Clean Air Act authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The state and local governments who brought the cases, meanwhile, say they involve purely state law claims that seek damages from the...