{"id":8293,"date":"2026-03-19T21:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:49:29","slug":"supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-from-oil-and-gas-companies-trying-to-block-climate-change-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/19\/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-from-oil-and-gas-companies-trying-to-block-climate-change-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court agrees to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge from oil giants, including ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy, aiming to block climate change lawsuits filed by local governments. The case stems from a Boulder, Colorado, suit alleging that fossil fuel companies deceived the public about environmental risks, leading to billions in damages from wildfires and rising sea levels. The companies argue that climate policy is a federal matter and state-level litigation threatens a critical economic sector. The Trump administration has backed the industry, warning that allowing such suits could expose anyone in the world to similar litigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: February 23, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-climate-change-lawsuits-c8982af07855a7a6379e1313ebb71895\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge from oil giants, including ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy, aiming to block climate change lawsuits filed by local governments. The case stems from a Boulder, Colorado, suit alleging that fossil fuel companies deceived the public about environmental risks, leading to billions in damages from wildfires and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}