Biden DOJ Urges High Court To Reject Calls To Upend Climate Lawsuits

The Biden administration’s solicitor general (SG) is urging Supreme Court justices to reject two petitions -- one from the oil industry and another from GOP-led states -- that seek to derail a raft of climate nuisance and fraud cases proceeding across the country in state courts. In both cases, Sunoco, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, et al., and State of Alabama, et al. v. California, et al., the court asked the SG to provide the...