( September 10, 2025, 4:43 PM EDT) -- SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal magistrate judge in New York recommended that several nonprofits devoted to addressing aspects of climate change be denied permissive intervention as defendants in a lawsuit filed by a group of states led by West Virginia and several coal, oil and natural gas industry groups against New York officials over the state’s Climate Change Superfund Act, finding that their motion “falls short” in showing that the nonprofits’ interests are not already represented and that their involvement in the case would not negatively affect “orderly litigation.”...