The authors say accepted independent scientific, economic and legal analyses establish corporate responsibility and dismiss pre-emption and constitutional arguments.

Numerous lawsuits have been brought in the federal and state courts in New York concerning climate change. Some were under two important state statutes on the subject – the Climate Leadership ...

A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal ...

We previously reported on New York State’s enactment of the Climate Change Superfund Act (the “Climate Superfund Act” or the “Act”), groundbreaking legislation that seeks to recover $75 ...

We should be enacting policies that make it easier for businesses and families to thrive and succeed—not punishing the ...

NY climate lawsuit is one of many designed to let states abuse the courts to do what they have failed to do otherwise -- ...

How do the two compare as well? ANNE LOUISE RABE: The New York Climate Change Superfund Act is a precedent-setting law and it would create a fee on big greenhouse gas emitters, big oil and gas ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups joined the battle against a New York State law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for a $75 billion climate change fund, calling the ...

with New York’s alone expected to raise $3 billion annually to offset the cost of climate change. California introduced its own Superfund bill last week. “Momentum for the NJ Superfund Act is stronger ...

Like the failed climate cases, the superfund law is New York’s attempt to carve out climate policy that, under the Clean Air Act, is ground claimed by the federal government to the exclusion of ...

The bill cleared a key State Assembly committee earlier this month, underscoring growing statewide calls for its passage. Trenton, NJ — 22 New Jersey municipalities representing over one million New ...