The Climate Change Movement issued a huge blow on Wednesday after the trial judge closed a permanent lawsuit charged with the claim that the large oil was blame for it. Climate damage to the climate In the state.
In 2022, New Jersey Public Prosecutor Matthew Platin filed a lawsuit against the largest oil companies in the country, Exagonobil, Chevron, Conocophyllipus, Philips 66, Shell, as well as the American Petroleum Institute, claiming that the fossil fuel industry increases the effects of climate change, and thus, thus, caused damage to the state.
However, the case was brought up on Wednesday by the New Jersey Jersey Douglas Hurd judge, who has eliminated that legal oil companies could not bear the responsibility of emissions around the world. The case has been rejected with bias, which means that it cannot be reopened.
“Persons are seeking to organize the National – and even all over the world – to identify and distribute legal products on which billions of people depend outside New Jersey to heat their homes, operate their hospitals and schools, produce and transport their food, and to manufacture countless basic elements, and Hurd said, who issued the ruling. To safety, welfare and progress for modern society.
The Chevron logo is displayed at the Chevron Fuel Station in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama)
Herd said that the prosecutors cannot claim compensation resulting from emissions at the country level.
“Since the prosecutors seek damage to the alleged damages caused by emissions between states, international emissions and global warming, their claims cannot be governed by the state law. In light of our federal constitutional system, the states cannot use their laws to resolve claims that seek to erection due to the injuries that claim It caused abroad.
NJ AG MatThew Platkin filed a lawsuit against large oil on allegations that it caused climate change. (Getty Images)
Energy experts He told Fox News Digital that the chapter sends a clear message that “the energy policy must be developed by elected officials, and not to litigate in existence by active lawyers.”
“This ruling is a great victory for a proper sense and the rule of law. Small activists used the courts to pay their radical agenda, but the judges are increasingly rejecting these unnecessary judicial cases that threaten energy security and economic stability,” from the American Energy Institute and the former representative of Texas, said in a statement Common with Fox News Digital.
The Exxon Future Station is seen on August 5, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getti Emaiz)
Steve Meloy, an older colleague at the Legal Institute of Energy and Environment and a member of the former Trump Trump EPA team, said that similar lawsuits may face the same fate because “the controversy of climate is political, not legal.”
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“Although the Democrats do not really understand this, the political issues in the ballot box, not the courtroom,” said Meloy.
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