Case Dismissed

No case for you:

In a scathing rebuke of the lawsuit filed by Bucks County, Pa., in March 2024, Judge Stephen Corr of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas dismissed the case with prejudice late on Friday and wrote that emissions caused by petroleum are regulated at the federal level, not the state level. Corr also expressed concerns with how Bucks County hired outside counsel and filed its complaint with minimal public feedback. The judge noted that at oral argument, the county's attorney "conceded that the advertising, production, transport, and sale of Defendants' fossil fuel products in Bucks County did not cause any harm to the County." The dismissal is a significant blow to a broad nationwide effort that targets oil companies in state courts and seeks court injunctions forcing them to pay hundreds of millions—or billions, in Bucks County's case—of dollars in environmental damages. After they filed their initial complaint in the case, Bucks County officials said they sought to "shift the financial burden of the climate crisis from the taxpayers of Bucks County to the companies responsible for creating the crisis."

The blame game doesn't work here...