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Also Friday, the nation’s highest court declined to take up challenges of state and local lawsuits against oil companies that seek to compel them to compensate for alleged climate change related damages

Energy-producing states, oil companies, and industry groups filed two challenges to waves of climate lawsuits. Critics assert that the states are using these lawsuits to impose anti-fossil fuel policies. Oil companies would be forced to pay tens of billions to state and local governments — costs that will be passed on to consumers.

“Consumers are not helped by these cases, which seek to wipe products from store shelves and funnel money to left-wing causes,” said O. H. Skinner, executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, a consumer advocacy nonprofit.