Vermont Is 1st State With Law Requiring Oil Companies Pay for Climate Change Damage June 3, 2024 By Lisa Rathke Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the...
Charleston, South Carolina Sues Big Oil Companies Over Climate Change Costs September 15, 2020 By MICHELLE LIU Charleston is now the first city in the American South to sue major oil companies in an attempt to hold...
States’ Climate Change Litigation Could Be Useful Tool Against Big Oil: Opinion November 5, 2019 By Noah Feldman, Bloomberg Opinion A growing number of cities and states want to turn climate change lawsuits against oil companies into the next tobacco...
Supreme Court Allows City, State Claims Against Energy Firms Over Climate Costs October 23, 2019 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court let government officials press ahead with three lawsuits that accuse more than a dozen oil and...
Government Report Finds Climate Change Costing Taxpayers Billions Each Year October 25, 2017 By Michael Biesecker A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year, with those costs...