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Judge Dismisses Cities’ Effort to Force Fossil Fuel Companies to Pay for Climate Change

HeadlineJun 26, 2018

In more climate change news, a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit in which the cities of Oakland and San Francisco were suing fossil fuel companies for the costs of dealing with climate change. The cities had sued to force companies, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, to pay for the cost of projects like protecting coastlines from flooding due to sea-level rise. But Judge William Alsup ruled, “The problem deserves a solution on a more vast scale than can be supplied by a district judge or jury in a public nuisance case.”

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