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Supreme Court’s Suncor Case Is ‘Bigger’ Than A ‘Climate’ Policy Dispute

‘It’s not a fight about climate science. … It’s a fight about whether we’re going to allow this maneuver to be what reshapes American society.’

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The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its 2026 term next week with what will be one of its biggest cases of the year. And according to several legal specialists, there’s much more to the dispute than meets the eye.

The case in question is Suncor v. Boulder, which deals with the lawfare that Boulder, Colorado, launched against Suncor Energy companies and the Exxon Mobil Corporation. The city is seeking monetary damages based on claims that the oil giants’ activities are contributing to “climate change” and that such activities are harming Boulder residents.

Before SCOTUS is the question of whether federal law prevents state-law claims “seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions on the global climate.” The justices will also consider whether they have jurisdiction to hear the case.

During a Tuesday virtual press conference, Alliance for Consumers Executive Director O.H. Skinner said that Democrats and their allies are attempting to make the suit out to be nothing more than a “basic tort case” that is “trying to hold people accountable for their actions.” In reality, however, he noted that the lawsuit is effectively “a Swiss Army knife for them to accomplish social change through a court system.”

“It’s actually bigger than ‘climate change,’” Skinner said. “It’s about [Democrats’] overall ability to weaponize courts to accomplish policy goals that are sweeping and that are multibillion-dollar in scale, and they could end up with an order that basically rewrites the American economy [if they prevail].”

Should the Supreme Court endorse Boulder’s position that states and localities can pursue these types of state-based claims........

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