Environmental & Energy,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jan. 17, 2020
DOJ to join oil defendants in 9th Circuit climate case
The circuit granted Wednesday a request from the department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division to share argument time with counsel for BP, P.L.C. and other industry defendants, whom Oakland and San Francisco — among several California municipalities — sued in 2017 seeking damages for local environmental impacts related to fossil fuel burning, like rising sea levels and degraded air quality.
The U.S. Department of Justice will lend vocal support to several oil industry titans in a climate change challenge set for argument before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in February.
The circuit granted Wednesday a request from the department's Environment and Natural Resources Division to share argument time with counsel for BP PLC and other industry defendants, whom Oakland and San Francisco -- among several California mun...
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