Middlesex County Sues Big Oil Over Climate Costs — SkimNews
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- Middlesex County, New Jersey has filed suit against major oil and gas companies seeking to recover costs from worsening flooding and other climate change impacts, becoming the latest local government to take that legal route.
- The filing lands just days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up Boulder, Colorado's climate case again, making the timing a direct echo of that pending precedent.
Why it matters: Middlesex County is the latest local government to pursue fossil-fuel defendants in court over climate damages, joining a wave that the Supreme Court's upcoming revisit of Boulder's case could legitimize or curtail for every other municipality in the pipeline.
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