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  From Legal Newsline

  Billionaire mega-donor Steyer picks favorite AG hopefuls; More global warming cases possible

  By John O'Brien | 11 months ago

  Democrat challengers aspiring to become the top lawyers in their states have received financial boosts from Tom Steyer, a billionaire investor and environmental activist who some feel is a driving force behind the recent string of climate change lawsuits struggling to persuade judges to punish the energy industry.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Boulder got things rolling, but momentum for suing Big Oil lacking in the rest of Colorado

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  The rest of Colorado seems to have little interest in following the lead of three communities in the state that have sued Big Oil over the alleged effects of global warming.

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  From Legal Newsline

  With two high-profile losses, when do climate plaintiffs start worrying about sanctions?

  By Dan Fisher | 1 year ago

  Now that federal judges on either coast have dismissed two of the most prominent climate lawsuits against the oil industry, risks to taxpayers may be going up.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Climate change roundup: NYC appeals loss, Big Oil attacks Wash. county’s lawsuit

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  New York City and the private lawyers it hired to sue the fossil fuel industry over alleged effects of climate change will not accept a federal judge’s recent decision to throw the lawsuit out of court.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Losing streak emerges as NYC, hired guns lose climate change case against Big Oil

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  Federal judges continue to reject the efforts of private lawyers who hold a financial stake in lawsuits brought by government officials against the oil industry over the alleged effects of climate change.

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  Lawsuits

  Chevron alleges 'criminal scheme' in $18 billion foreign arbitration award

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Chevron alleges they are the target of a "criminal scheme" over a deeded land controversy in Saudi Arabia. .

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  From Legal Newsline

  Others 0 for 2, but Rhode Island joining climate change litigation anyway

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  A judge on the other side of the country has ruled that it isn’t an issue for the courts, but that is not stopping Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, and the private lawyers he has hired, from suing the oil industry over alleged effects of climate change.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Rhode Island sues over climate change, using similar claims the state Supreme Court has already rejected

  By Daniel Fisher | 1 year ago

  R.I. AG Peter Kilmartin better hope Rhode Island courts import California’s concept of public nuisance law, since the last time a Rhode Island AG tried this tactic, over lead paint, the state Supreme Court rejected the claim entirely.

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  From Legal Newsline

  A closely watched climate case is dismissed; Will the others survive?

  By Dan Fisher | 1 year ago

  The private lawyers who engineered the latest round of municipal lawsuits over climate change hoped they’d found a path through the thicket of precedents blocking their way by suing oil companies for selling hydrocarbons instead of burning them and by citing state instead of federal law.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Judge boots global warming cases of San Francisco, Oakland against oil industry

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  A California federal judge has rejected the efforts of municipal officials who teamed with private lawyers to seek to hold the energy industry liable for the alleged future effects of climate change.