New Jersey Climate News
News Aggregation from the NJ Climate Change Resource Center
Policy
New Jersey’s Middlesex County sues big oil over escalating climate impacts
The lawsuit comes as the Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments in a similar climate case against oil companies. A ruling in the industry’s favor in that case could kill dozens of pending climate suits nationwide.
DANA DRUGMAND / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS – A New Jersey county has become the latest local government to sue major oil and gas companies, seeking to recover costs from damage caused by worsening flooding and other climate change impacts.
The filing comes just days before the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Boulder, Colorado’s climate case against Big Oil in a proceeding whose outcome could stop these types of lawsuits in their tracks …
SUBSCRIBE
Get the latest updates from the NJ Climate Change Resource Center
SHARE THIS PAGE
Facebook
Twitter
Email
LATEST HEADLINES
Powerful nor’easter floods Northeast, leaves over 130,000 without power as high tides threaten coast
LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN SEEWER / AP / PBS
Inside the $1.4B taxpayer-backed buyout to kill N.J. offshore wind projects
JELANI GIBSON / NJ.COM
NJ coast faces rising seas as scientists track signs of a changing climate
TED GREENBERG / NBC 10