Supreme Court seeks Biden administration's opinion on climate, voting rights cases

📆 10/06/2024 09:55 a. m.
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The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Justice Department to weigh in on state laws that allow energy companies to be sued over their contributions to climate change.

Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. The Biden administration is proposing new rules for the nation’s oil and gas leasing program that would raise costs for energy companies to drill on public lands and …

Energy companies argue that federal law reigns supreme when it comes to national and international problems like global warming. The companies said state laws that allow lawsuits would upend the energy industry. They said courts in the past have found interstate emissions to be a legal area controlled by federal law.

The justices on Monday also asked for the Justice Department’s views on a redistricting case out of North Dakota involving the state Legislature and seats drawn to give American Indian voters more say in their representatives.

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