Trump DOJ Backs Oil Industry In Supreme Court Climate Nuisance Appeal

摘要

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is backing the oil industry's call for the Supreme Court to overturn a host of lower court decisions on a key procedural issue that would help keep a raft of climate change nuisance sources in federal court, rather than in the state courts where cities, states and counties filed them. DOJ's Nov. 23 amicus brief in the case, BP PLC et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, says the federal government has a "significant interest" in the scope of appellate courts' review of lower court decisions of whether cases were properly removed to federal court.