After more than a decade of Rockefeller-funded climate lawsuits that have generated plenty of headlines but little to show for them, the U.S. Supreme Court may finally decide whether to step in. At today’s conference, the justices are considering whether to grant review of a petition that could reshape the entire climate-lawfare landscape. 

The petition at issue challenges the Colorado Supreme Court decision allowing the City of Boulder and Boulder County’s climate lawsuit to proceed under state law. If the Court takes the case, it would confront a question that has driven years of sprawling litigation: can local governments use state tort law to set national climate policy, and impose what Boulder’s own lawyers have called an “indirect carbon tax”? 

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