Officials at the Port of Baltimore, one of Maryland’s biggest economic assets, have acknowledged that sea levels are rising, but their efforts toward combating climate change are a work in progress. “We rely on the water,” said Kristen Fidler, director ...

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Baltimore’s lawsuit alleging fossil fuel companies concealed dangers and misinformed the public about climate change will be remanded from federal court to state court after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt the transfer. Baltimore U.S. District Judge Ellen L. ...

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Fossil fuel companies will have to ask the Supreme Court to halt an order sending Baltimore’s lawsuit over climate change back to state court. Baltimore filed its lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court last year alleging the companies concealed dangers and ...

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As the temperature in their rowhouse apartment rose to a humid 96 degrees F during a summer heat wave, Michael Thomas and Alberta Wilkerson sat on their bed, in front of fans, wiping sweat and drinking water, trying to keep their minds off the heat.

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Baltimore’s lawsuit alleging oil companies concealed dangers and misinformed the public about climate change belongs in state court, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander issued an order remanding the case because she determined removal to federal court ...

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The defendants in Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit are prepared to vigorously litigate where the case should be heard, asking a federal judge last week to agree to conditionally stay proceedings so they can appeal if she rules the case should be ...

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New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued ExxonMobil on Wednesday, accusing the oil giant of defrauding investors about the financial risks of climate change and lying about how it was calculating potential carbon costs.

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Baltimore's climate change lawsuit "creates no basis for federal jurisdiction" and should be remanded to state court where it originated, the lawyers for the city argued in a motion filed Tuesday.

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One of the oil companies named in Baltimore's lawsuit over climate change removed the case to U.S. District Court last week, making the same arguments that have gotten other cases around the country into federal courts -- where subsequently they have been dismissed.

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Baltimore has joined a growing number of communities seeking compensation from fossil fuel companies for the costs of climate change.

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