Episode 35: Too Big for Any State, Too Inconvenient for Washington
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Monday morning the Supreme Court opens its new term with Suncor Energy v. Commissioners of Boulder County, and the oil industry is asking the justices to make sure nobody can send them a bill for climate change in a state courtroom. Boulder sued ExxonMobil and Suncor in 2018. Roughly sixty similar suits are waiting on the answer. And with Justice Alito stepping aside, it's eight justices, not nine.
Don Jackson and Daysha Voss take the case seriously, then take the shell game apart: the argument isn't "we didn't do it," it's "you can't ask us here," and every door it points to…
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