March 18, 2026–Written by John Egan for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)– Oil and gas companies have been sued in at least two dozen climate change cases filed by states and cities over the last five years, in jurisdictions ranging from Maine, Maryland and Puerto Rico to California, Oregon and Hawaii, according to a database of climate change litigation maintained by The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. Typically, the states and cities allege the companies engaged in some form of misrepresentation or concealment regarding the climate impacts of fossil fuel products, leading to billions of dollars of climate change damages.
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