For left-wing activist groups, billionaire-funded NGOs, and trial lawyers’ companies recruiting increasing numbers of state and local government agencies to sue US oil and gas companies with climate change claims. , things are not going well. Over the past few months, a legal campaign coordinated from one office based primarily in San Francisco has suffered from a series of judicial decisions that appear to be an increase in consensus in the country’s courts.

Just two weeks after suffering a major retreat In decision Maryland’s Anne Arundel County was involved and the pushers and funders of the legal science campaign were thrown out at Cases targeting exxonmobil In New Jersey. So, Superior Court Judge Douglas H. Heard dismissed the Garden State case on a prejudice basis in a recent decision, based on a general federal advantage argument. New York City and Baltimoreand in the case of Anne Arundel.

In seeking damages, New Jersey adopted similar tactics employed in other cases that constituted the law’s campaign. of state laws that have nothing to do with air pollution. But Heard didn’t have it.

“In this case, despite the artistic appeals by the plaintiff, the judge states in his decision: A suspected injury.”

The state, city and county issues that have been registered in this legal science campaign in the hopes of grabbing some big money from the big oil, and their debate will result in local efforts to regulate air quality in effect. It is inevitable that it exists. The federal government has always argued for its advantage. There is a very good reason for this. If every city, county and nation in America is allowed to regulate air quality, the economy will soon halt as it becomes impossible to do business in this country.

Like the judges in other cases decided so far, Heard admitted to that reality when he dismissed the New Jersey case. Relief for injuries caused by interstate or global emissions” is “in conclusion that, as only federal law can claim the plaintiff’s interstate and international emissions “required by the basic constitutional scheme.” For that,” he added.

The decision in the New Jersey case is a real disappointment for an NGO who has spent years seeking to file lawsuits with billionaires-funded foundations and the state attorney general’s office. . 2023, EnergyIndepth has been obtained A detailed email of tactics adopted by the Center for Climate Integrity Center (CCI), funded by Rockefeller, will convince various cities and counties in the state to sign up for the Lawfare campaign.

These emails revealed close coordination between the CCI and New Jersey officials. We have recognized that CCI will fund “accountability universities” to educate LawFare participants on the best tactics and discussion points and develop large-scale efforts.

CCI isGhost writing“It serves as a set of opinions and extra hands for civil servants and “…no legal obligations at all. We are 501 C3, so there is no necessary pledge or legal sign. Rather, I They see themselves as a set of extra hands to help civil servants…”

So, what are all these points, might you ask? Well, the point is, when you see one of these cases brought by city, county, or state governments, you just know that this isn’t happening organically. We also know that this big money grab costs these companies millions of people to protect themselves. Maybe we all demand these billionaires and we demand that trial lawyers find a more productive way to spend our time and money.

David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialised in public policy and communication.

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