{"id":2767,"date":"2024-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/2767\/the-fossil-fuel-industry-ramps-up-efforts-to-avoid-accountability-for-climate-impacts-in-court-while-simultaneously-suing-environmental-organizations-and-activists\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:55:24","slug":"the-fossil-fuel-industry-ramps-up-efforts-to-avoid-accountability-for-climate-impacts-in-court-while-simultaneously-suing-environmental-organizations-and-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-fossil-fuel-industry-ramps-up-efforts-to-avoid-accountability-for-climate-impacts-in-court-while-simultaneously-suing-environmental-organizations-and-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"The fossil fuel industry ramps up efforts to avoid accountability for climate impacts in court, while simultaneously suing environmental organizations and activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large p4featured_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/5b37b0b4-gp1sxqff_low-res-with-credit-line-800px.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court As Justice Ketani Brown Jackson is sworn in\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Supreme Court as Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn as the 116th Supreme Court justice and the first Black woman to serve on the high court. Jackson, a former public defender and federal appeals court judge, replaces Justice Stephen Breyer, who has officially retired from the high court.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/5b37b0b4-gp1sxqff_low-res-with-credit-line-800px.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court As Justice Ketani Brown Jackson is sworn in\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Supreme Court as Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn as the 116th Supreme Court justice and the first Black woman to serve on the high court. Jackson, a former public defender and federal appeals court judge, replaces Justice Stephen Breyer, who has officially retired from the high court.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Washington, DC (June 6, 2024)<\/b><b>\u2014<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to one of the latest moves by the fossil fuel industry to skirt accountability for climate impacts \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/eenews\/2024\/06\/06\/fossil-fuel-allies-ramp-up-calls-for-supreme-court-to-crush-climate-cases-00161843\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an unprecedented pressure campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by industry allies to convince the Supreme Court to dismiss dozens of climate liability cases \u2013 Tefere Gebre, Chief Program Officer of Greenpeace USA, said: \u201cThe country should take notice of the escalating tactics being used by the fossil fuel industry to influence and misuse the U.S. legal system. Yesterday, the Supreme Court met<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to consider t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">oil industry\u2019s latest request to dismiss lawsuits filed by U.S. cities, such as the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> high-profile case <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City of Honolulu vs Sunoco LP<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that demand oil companies pay up for damages.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Honolulu case was filed in 2020 against several Big Oil companies alleging that their actions led to \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/climatecasechart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/case-documents\/2020\/20200309_docket-1CCV-20-0000380_complaint.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a substantial portion of the climate crisis-related impacts in the City<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lahaina wildfires in 2023, the most deadly in modern American history, underscore the need for this lawsuit to move forward. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In telling the full story of climate liability lawsuits like Honolulu, it is also important to note the irony of big oil companies begging for dozens of legal cases to be dismissed even as that same industry escalates lawsuits against environmental organizations and activists. Sunoco LP is the first listed defendant in the Honolulu case, in which many fossil fuel-aligned stakeholders are trying to persuade courts to let oil companies off the hook for billions of dollars. Meanwhile, its parent company Energy Transfer \u2013 which acquired Sunoco in 2012 \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/energy-transfer-lawsuit-story\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is suing Greenpeace for $300 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a case that threatens to obliterate Greenpeace in the U.S. while curbing the right to peaceful protest and free speech.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace USA is part of a global network of independent campaigning organizations that use peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. 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