Exxon, Chevron and others lay out arguments against local climate change cases
JERSEY CITY, N.J. () - Now that a years-long battle over where climate-change lawsuits brought by states and cities that teamed with private lawyer...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. () - Now that a years-long battle over where climate-change lawsuits brought by states and cities that teamed with private lawyers should be heard is over, the major corporations being sued are making their arguments they should be tossed. Defendants like Exxon, Shell, BP and Chevron filed a motion to dismiss July 7 in New Jersey's Hudson County Superior Court, arguing the state-law claims made by the City of Hoboken are preempted by the federal Clean Air Act. The defendants make other claims for dismissal now that it has been determined plaintiffs pled their cases in a manner that avoids federal court jurisdiction.