FIRST ON FOX — A group of nearly two-dozen Republican attorneys general is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in a climate change liability case out of Hawaii they say could have 'grave' consequences for American energy production.
In 2020, the city of Honolulu sued several major fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, claiming the companies’ products cause greenhouse gas emissions and global warming without warning consumers about the risks. The city employed a series of state laws like public nuisance and trespass measures and said the companies should pay billions to the state to abate the effects of climate change like weather events, sea level rise, heat waves, flooding, and global warming generally.
Although a case nestled in the state of Hawaii, a long way from us here in Alabama, it's critically important for us to be engaged. And in fact, critically important for the Supreme Court, ultimately to help decide this issue,' he said. The AGs said in the brief that the 'theory used against energy companies can be expanded to allow targeting of any cross-border activity that purportedly ‘exacerbate the impacts of climate change.