Supreme Court Rejects Oil Companies' Attempts to Move Climate Lawsuits to Federal Court.

The US Supreme Court has declined a request by Exxon, Chevron and Suncor Energy to transfer a series of state lawsuits to federal court. The lawsuits, brought by the state of Rhode Island and municipalities in California, Colorado, Hawaii and Maryland, seek to hold the companies accountable for the impact of climate change, accusing them of knowingly contributing to it. The state and local plaintiffs were backed by the Biden administration in seeking to keep the lawsuits in state courts, a reversal from the Trump administration, which sided with the oil companies in seeking to transfer them to federal courts.