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US Supreme Court justices appeared divided during oral arguments as they debated whether communities can sue big energy companies to pay for local harms allegedly caused by climate change.
How the court will lean is unclear amid Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state level
WASHINGTON >> U.S. Supreme Court justices wrestled with a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart a lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change, as they opened their new nine-month term on Monday.