US Supreme Court to hear Exxon and Suncor bid to toss Boulder's climate suit

The Boulder litigation is one of dozens of climate-related lawsuits filed by U.S. jurisdictions against companies that extract, produce, distribute or sell fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, causing more of the sun's heat to be trapped, which leads to a rise in the average global temperature over time. The Boulder government officials in their 2018 lawsuit accused the U.S.-based Exxon and Canada-based Suncor of misleading the publi ...