{"id":305580,"date":"2024-03-02T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305580"},"modified":"2024-03-02T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:03:50","slug":"major-energy-companies-ask-scotus-to-intervene-in-hawaii-climate-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305580","title":{"rendered":"Major Energy Companies Ask SCOTUS To Intervene In Hawaii Climate Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Major energy companies asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to reconsider a state court decision allowing Honolulu\u2019s lawsuit against them for alleged climate damages to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October, the Hawaii Supreme Court\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0against the companies\u2019 effort to dismiss the case on the basis that federal law prevents claims under state law, allowing it to continue to trial. The companies, which include Chevron and Sunoco,\u00a0urged<\/a>\u00a0the Supreme Court Wednesday to intervene, noting \u201cyears might pass before another opportunity to address this pressing question comes along.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis case presents the Court with its only foreseeable opportunity in the near future to decide a dispositive question that is arising in every climate-change case: whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions on the global climate,\u201d the petition states. \u201cAfter the decision below, there is now a clear conflict on that question.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court previously declined<\/a> energy companies\u2019 request to consider whether the claims in cases out of Colorado, Maryland, California, Hawaii and Rhode Island should be heard in federal court in April 2023.  (RELATED: Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Handling Lawsuit Against Oil Companies Calls Climate Change An \u2018Existential Threat\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cState court litigation is not a constitutionally permissible means to establish global climate and energy policy,\u201d Theodore J. Boutrous, the attorney for Chevron, said in a statement. \u201cAs the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in dismissing a similar New York City lawsuit, \u2018such a sprawling case is simply beyond the limits of state law.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHonolulu will respond in court on this, and that will be the only comment on the petition,\u201d Matt Gonser, executive director of the city\u2019s Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Delaware Superior Court held<\/a> in January that the state\u2019s claims against oil companies for \u201cinjuries resulting from out-of-state or global greenhouse emissions and interstate pollution\u201d were preempted by the federal Clean Air Act. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit likewise found in April 2021 that New York City could not bring claims against energy companies under state law, noting that \u201cglobal warming is a uniquely international concern that touches upon issues of federalism and foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hawaii Supreme Court\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0on Feb.7 that there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public, finding that the \u201cspirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honolulu did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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