The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Boulder’s climate lawsuit – a case that could determine whether activist cities and states can use state courts to wage a backdoor war on American energy policy.

“Climate lawfare,” as legal experts have dubbed it, refers to the growing wave of municipal lawsuits seeking to hold energy companies liable for global climate change – not through Congress or federal regulators, but through state-court litigation designed to extract billions from energy companies and force policy outcomes.

With oral arguments approaching this fall, legal professionals, academics, and other experts are unified on one point: the stakes for American consumers and the rule of law could not be higher.

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