Nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general are requesting that the Supreme Court get involved in a Hawaii-based climate change liability case, arguing that it might have “grave” ramifications for US energy output.
Significant oil companies filed a petition with the Supreme Court in February to weigh in on a case that the city of Honolulu had initiated. The city alleged the companies had misled the public about their role in global warming, a move that might have cost them billions of dollars in damages.
On Monday, twenty states, led by the attorney general of Alabama, Steve Marshall, filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to consider the complaint.
They claimed that the action and other similar cases that are surfacing in lower courts are “an affront to its equal sovereignty.”.
