The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from numerous Republican attorneys general regarding climate change suits against the oil and gas industry.
The Associated Press (AP) reported Monday that “the justices acted on an unusual Republican effort to file suit in the Supreme Court over the Democratic states’ use of their own state courts to sue fossil fuel companies for deceiving the public about the risks of their products contributing to climate change.”
Nineteen Republican attorneys general were involved in the lawsuit, and the outlet noted that Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito said they would have permitted the lawsuit to move forward for the time being, however, “The justices don’t have the discretion to reject the complaint at this stage, Thomas wrote in a dissent
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