Climate Lawfare Subverts the Will of the People Americans elected President Trump and his agenda of unleashing American energy , choosing to prioritize energy freedom and abundance over heavy-handed regulation and climate policy dogma. This is how policy change is supposed to work. President Biden, green groups, D.C. think tanks, and international organizations enacted a set of policies that prioritized climate goals over everything else. These policies were rejected because they led to runaway inflation, higher energy and electricity prices, and restrictions on our ability to access our domestic natural resources. Green activists and their government allies often claim to champion democratic values. However, their insistence that their specific policy preferences are the only ones truly aligned with democracy — and the tactics they use to enforce these policies — indicates a total disregard for the genuine concerns of ordinary people. In the last election, voters decided that climate policy was a bust and chose a different path. Instead of accepting this reality, green groups have turned to frivolous litigation to pursue their goal of putting oil and gas companies out of business. Similar to the rise in political lawfare by political operators, energy producers such as ExxonMobil and Shell are facing an avalanche of climate lawsuits from the environmental left, alleging that these companies are culpable for the impact of weather events because of their greenhouse gas emissions. Cases of this kind have been brought in multiple jurisdictions in the U.S. and across the globe. Fortunately, these efforts have been met with limited success, at least so far. In Hawaii , officials from Honolulu sued 17 energy companies for “creating a public nuisance and failing to warn the public of the risks” posed by their products. The case was recently denied a writ of certiorari by the Supreme […]
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