The new state law assigns a handful of energy producers sole blame for climate change and imposes corresponding financial responsibility for damages alleged to have resulted from it in the past, or ...

To help cover this rising bill, New York State has passed a new “Climate Change Superfund Law” that asks major fossil fuel companies to pay up, based on their historic sales of coal ...

We previously reported on New York State’s enactment of the Climate Change Superfund Act (the “Climate Superfund Act” or the “Act”), groundbreaking legislation that seeks to recover $75 ...

and New York Climate Superfund Act of 2024. Others are brought under various common law, consumer protection, securities, and other theories. This column describes the most important of these cases.

New York is being sued over delays in implementing its climate law. Four environmental and climate justice groups filed a lawsuit Monday in a state court, claiming that New York is “stonewalling ...

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups has filed a lawsuit against New York State, alleging that the state has failed ...

A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal ...

The authors say accepted independent scientific, economic and legal analyses establish corporate responsibility and dismiss pre-emption and constitutional arguments.

Fossil fuel firms are ramping up a decades-long fight against policymakers, academics, and activists who have sought to make them pay for their role in causing climate change.