Companies’ Preemption Argument In Climate Change Suit SCOTUS Petition Challenged

( November 12, 2025, 2:19 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Colorado municipalities argue that the U.S. Supreme Court should reject a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a group of oil and gas companies asking if federal law precludes state law claims for relief for alleged damages to infrastructure and resources by contributing to greenhouse gas emissions because the petitioners attempted “to leverage an alleged conflict on a different preemption question to force a decision on a constitutional theory they have yet to convince any appellate court to adopt.”...