‘Recipe For Disaster’: Oil Companies Say State Tort Law Can’t Solve Climate Crisis

( May 18, 2026, 1:26 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of oil and gas companies sued by two Colorado municipalities for alleged contributions to climate change urge the U.S. Supreme Court in a petitioner brief to reverse a state supreme court holding that federal law did not prohibit the cities’ state law claims, arguing that the decision was “incompatible with the structure of our constitutional system, the Clean Air Act [CAA], and this Court’s precedents.”...