Oil companies notch victory in Supreme Court fight over climate cases

Published May 17, 2021 12:00am ET



BP, ExxonMobil, and other oil companies will get another opportunity to push city and state climate liability lawsuits to federal court after a Supreme Court ruling in their favor Monday.

The Supreme Court’s opinion will have implications for the more than two dozen lawsuits oil companies now face from cities and states seeking to force them to pay for climate damages.

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