{"id":67057,"date":"2026-02-23T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/us-supreme-court-takes-up-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-accountability-case\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:02:59","slug":"us-supreme-court-takes-up-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-accountability-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/us-supreme-court-takes-up-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-accountability-case\/","title":{"rendered":"US supreme court takes up fossil fuel firms\u2019 climate accountability case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judgment in city of Boulder\u2019s lawsuit against Suncor Energy USA and ExxonMobil could affect wave of climate litigation<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">US supreme court<\/a> has decided to hear arguments in a climate accountability lawsuit, marking the first time the high court has weighed in on such a case. The decision could potentially hinder the wave of climate litigation the US has seen in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a good sign,\u201d said Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law and Graduate School.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/23\/supreme-court-suncor-exxonmobil-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judgment in city of Boulder\u2019s lawsuit against Suncor Energy USA and ExxonMobil could affect wave of climate litigation The US supreme court has decided to hear arguments in a climate accountability lawsuit, marking the first time the high court has weighed in on such a case. The decision could potentially hinder the wave of climate &#8230; <a title=\"US supreme court takes up fossil fuel firms\u2019 climate accountability case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/us-supreme-court-takes-up-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-accountability-case\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US supreme court takes up fossil fuel firms\u2019 climate accountability case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}