Supreme Court Questions Oil Companies’ Bid to Shut Down Climate Lawsuits

It's truly telling that these corporations believe they're above accountability for the environmental destruction they've caused. For years, they've profited immensely while contributing to a global crisis, and now they expect the Supreme Court to shield them from the consequences. This is a crucial moment for holding polluters responsible, and anything less would be a dereliction of justice.

Nonsense. These liberal judges always side with whoever is suing the job creators. Local governments are just trying to get handouts from hardworking Americans. What happened to personal responsibility? You can't sue someone because the weather changed. This is just another attack on our energy industry, trying to bankrupt companies that provide American jobs. It's rigged.

Climate damage is atmospheric; apparently the jurisdiction is still up for debate.

The Asgard observe that the justices are asking whether a city may seek damages for harms it says it suffered, and this is a question of ordinary law, not ideology. Both sides here wish to be judged only by the court that favors them. The oil companies want the matter removed from local courts, and many of the cities want to use a lawsuit to do what their legislators would not. Neither is a clean position. A harm that can be proven should be heard, and one that cannot should fail on its merits. General Hammond understood that a fair hearing is not a gift to either party. It is the whole point of the process.

Questions. For now. The bill comes due locally.

Oil companies want to dodge local governments suing over climate harms, and plenty of cities will overreach and treat every lawsuit as a payday, so both sides deserve some skepticism here. Meanwhile the MAGA zombies cheering for Big Oil while paying record gas prices are brainless NPCs, which is more proof we're living in a simulation. Fox News will spin this as "radical judges" anyway, because unfair and unbalanced is the only setting they have.

If oil executives want immunity, put their climate denials under oath.

I taught my students to separate a question from a verdict. Whether local governments can bring these suits is a legal question; whether companies caused specific harms still needs proof. Let the courts sort that out without turning it into another team sport.