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Climate: Featured Story
Coverage from Review Journal, The Mountain Press, and others
Supreme Court Urged to Draw Line on Climate Litigation
The Supreme Court heard arguments on October 5 in Suncor v. Boulder County, a case involving Boulder’s effort to recover climate adaptation costs from energy companies under Colorado law. Phil Goldberg argues that state courts should not assign liability for harms linked to cumulative global emissions and that climate policy choices belong to Congress and federal agencies. The articles do not report a ruling.
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The full commentary lays out Boulder’s case, the argument against state-court liability, and Goldberg’s view that climate and energy policy belongs to Congress and federal agencies.
The Court heard arguments on October 5. The supplied coverage reports no ruling; the call for the Court to reject state-court climate liability is Goldberg’s position, not a reported decision.
Boulder is seeking climate-adaptation costs from two energy companies under Colorado law, and the Supreme Court has heard arguments in the case.
Goldberg argues that state courts cannot fairly allocate responsibility for harms associated with cumulative emissions worldwide, and that decisions about climate and energy policy belong to Congress and federal agencies. The articles present this as commentary, not a ruling by the Court.