In a brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court, the defendants argued the Court should end Boulder’s climate lawsuit once and for all to avoid a “chaos” of a patchwork of state court rulings governing energy policy.

In February, after eight years of Boulder wasting taxpayer money its climate lawsuit against Exxon and Suncor, SCOTUS agreed to review the companies’ petition on whether state and local governments can use tort law to regulate global greenhouse gas emissions. The Court will hear oral arguments in the case during its fall term this year.

The Court now has the opportunity to deliver a major blow to the national climate litigation campaign and its attempt push public policy through the courts.

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