Honolulu’s climate change lawsuit is one of roughly two dozen filed by blue states and cities in recent years. In 2023, the Supreme Court rejected similar appeals from major oil companies facing ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by oil companies to dismiss a lawsuit by the city of Honolulu seeking to hold them responsible for the impacts of climate change. The defendants ...

The order allows the city of Honolulu’s lawsuit against ... worldwide seeking to leverage action on climate change through the courts. The oil and gas companies appealed to the Supreme Court ...

Lawyers for Honolulu said in a filing that the case seeks to hold the oil and gas industry accountable under Hawaii law for "deliberately concealing and misrepresenting the climate-change impacts ...

The justices turned away an appeal by the oil companies of a ... by human-induced climate change. The plaintiffs have sought unspecified monetary damages. Honolulu is located on Hawaii’s Oahu ...

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Business interests have raised red flags about Honolulu’s and other similar cases across the country, warning that such suits erode federal provisions that already govern the way these oil and ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected two separate bids to scrap the City of Honolulu’s climate-related lawsuit, which accuses major oil and gas companies of knowingly promoting false and ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will not hear an appeal from certain major oil and gas companies to dismiss a lawsuit by the ...

Lawyers for Honolulu said in a filing that the case seeks to hold the oil and gas industry accountable under Hawaii law for "deliberately concealing and misrepresenting the climate-change impacts ...

Ben Sullivan, an official at the City and County of Honolulu's Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and ... prompting the oil companies to appeal to the justices. The defendants had tried ...