Climate Lawsuits Face Setbacks as they Raise Major Public Policy Issues
By EsqSocial Corporation 26/05/21
The drive to litigate public policy over climate change took some hits the last two weeks in the United States Supreme Court. First, last Monday in the case of Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. BP P. L. C. et al., Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a very technical ruling that sent back to the lower Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals the question of in what forum a municipality can sue an energy company for actions that the municipality claims have wrongfully contributed to climate change......
By: Flaster Greenberg PC