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   A judge dismissed New York City’s lawsuit seeking to make energy   
   companies pay for climate change on Tuesday.   
      
   New York Supreme Court Justice Anar Patel tossed the lawsuit, writing in   
   her ruling that the city could not simultaneously argue that New Yorkers   
   were aware of the relationship between fossil fuels and climate change   
   while being allegedly misled by oil companies about their role in   
   climate change, according to Reuters. New York City’s lawsuit against   
   Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell was one of many similar suits filed in   
   Democrat-controlled jurisdictions seeking massive compensation from   
   energy corporations for their supposed role in driving climate change.   
      
   “The city cannot have it both ways,” Patel wrote in the ruling,   
   according to Reuters. She added that she did not find any evidence that   
   the companies or the American Petroleum Institute engaged in a   
   deliberate “greenwashing” effort to mislead consumers.   
      
   A spokesman for New York City’s law department told Reuters that the   
   city is reviewing its options in response to Patel’s decision.   
      
   “Our complaint alleged that these defendants spent millions to mislead   
   consumers to think that they, and their products, contribute to a clean   
   energy future,” the spokesman told Reuters. “Our complaint alleged that   
   these defendants spent millions to mislead consumers to think that they,   
   and their products, contribute to a clean energy future.”   
      
   Patel’s ruling came down just one day after the Supreme Court declined   
   to intervene in similar climate nuisance litigation brought by the city   
   of Honolulu. Critics of the various climate lawsuits generally assert   
   that they threaten federalism and U.S. energy security by setting up the   
   possibility that different courts effectively legislate from the bench   
   and create a disjointed regulatory landscape for energy production   
   across the country.   
      
   https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/15/judge-delivers-fatal-blow-new   
   york-citys-lawsuit-against-energy-companies/   
      
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