It’s a dark day for Louisiana conservatives when the state’s top law enforcement officer takes up the mantle for the Left’s climate lawfare agenda. Attorney General Liz Murrill, elected with the promise of advancing President Trump’s agenda, now sides with Democrat-aligned trial lawyers in an absurd campaign to pin the blame for Gulf Coast erosion on oil and gas producers operating in the state.

In May, a local jury returned a $745 million dollar verdict against Chevron that the attorney general’s office intervened in as a third-party plaintiff. And there are dozens of other similar cases pending.

The Louisiana land loss cases—now heading to the Supreme Court—are cut from the same cloth as the climate cases being litigated in deep blue states and municipalities across the country. Like those cases, the primary objective is extracting money, not fixing coastal erosion. Nothing says this louder than the state’s decision this month to scrap its largest coastal restoration project to date. (RELATED: Trump’s Plan To ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Could Be Kneecapped By Lawsuits In Red State, Letter Warns)

This isn’t “justice,” it’s a shakedown. Left-wing trial lawyers—pocketing huge contingency fees—target companies like Chevron in order to destroy the oil and gas industry in the United States. To do this, they are rewriting history by blaming industry for century-old, government-made problems. And Attorney General Murrill is playing right along.

The true story of Louisiana’s coast isn’t one of corporate villainy; it’s the saga of the 1927 Mississippi River floods and the government’s response. After catastrophic floods, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built extensive levees and dikes to protect communities and farmland. This flood control infrastructure, necessary as........

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