Two years after The New York Times ran a feature story on the private attorney representing Puerto Rico municipalities in their climate lawsuit, a federal judge has dismissed the case. 

When the case was filed, the outlet wrote that attorney Missy Sims, is “the singular force behind a creative legal gambit to make oil and gas companies pay” for the effects of climate change. This “gambit” – which included charging oil companies under anti-racketeering laws for the first time – generated many a headline but ultimately ended the same way as many other cases against the industry: dismissal.   

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