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 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 ...

The likes of XOM and CVX face rising pressure to tackle climate deception claims and brace for the potential financial impact ...

The US Supreme Court buttressed efforts by environmental advocates to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, letting Honolulu press a lawsuit that accuses the industry of deceiving ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) — The US Supreme Court buttressed efforts by environmental advocates to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, letting Honolulu press a lawsuit that accuses the industry of ...

Dozens of similar cases are cropping up around the country, with states and cities trying to hold the fossil fuel industry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...