Oil Sector Again Urges High Court To Move Climate Suit To Federal Court

The oil industry is trying again to persuade the Supreme Court to conclude that climate change nuisance cases brought by state and local governments can be heard in federal court, even though the justices earlier this year let stand a series of appellate rulings routing the suits to state courts that industry considers to be inferior venues. “Although the court recently declined review of those jurisdictional issues in related climate-change cases, the need for the court’s intervention has only become...