{"id":72013,"date":"2026-04-17T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/supreme-court-sides-with-oil-and-gas-firms-in-louisiana-coastal-damage-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:54:55","slug":"supreme-court-sides-with-oil-and-gas-firms-in-louisiana-coastal-damage-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/supreme-court-sides-with-oil-and-gas-firms-in-louisiana-coastal-damage-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court sides with oil and gas firms in Louisiana coastal damage fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8-0 ruling gives companies new day in federal court after firms including Chevron ordered to pay millions for cleanup<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court handed a win on Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740m to clean up damage to the state\u2019s coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/17\/supreme-court-oil-and-gas-louisiana\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8-0 ruling gives companies new day in federal court after firms including Chevron ordered to pay millions for cleanup The supreme court handed a win on Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana. The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal &#8230; <a title=\"Supreme court sides with oil and gas firms in Louisiana coastal damage fight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/supreme-court-sides-with-oil-and-gas-firms-in-louisiana-coastal-damage-fight\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Supreme court sides with oil and gas firms in Louisiana coastal damage fight\">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-72013","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\/72013","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=72013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}