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☆ US climate change lawsuit seeks $50 billion, citing 2021 heat wave
  + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Clark Mindock | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
June 22 (Reuters) - An Oregon county on Thursday sued Exxon (XOM.N), Chevron (CVX.N), other major oil and coal companies, and industry groups, seeking over $50 billion to counter the harms caused by extreme weather fueled by climate change. It said the companies and trade groups must now help pay for past and future harms from the extreme weather that has resulted, including a 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest that killed dozens. The lawsuit also targets the consulting firm McKinsey, which it said advises major oil companies, including on strategies to downplay or deny the link between greenhouse gas emissions and extreme weather. Since the area normally has mild weather, the lawsuit said residents were not equipped with things like air conditioners to handle the elevated temperatures. The county said 69 people in the county died from overheating and the heat wave caused a "crushing economic burden."
Persons: Theodore Boutrous, Clark Mindock, Alexia Garamfalvi, Matthew Lewis, Diane Craft Organizations: Exxon, Chevron, American Petroleum Institute, McKinsey, U.S, U.S . Constitution, Congress, Thomson Locations: An Oregon, Multnomah County, Portland, Pacific Northwest, U.S ., U.S, United States, New York
☆ SEC, Covington dig in their heels as judge weighs US demand for client names
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | Industry Insight | Wall Street Research | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
May 10 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve its dispute with law firm Covington & Burling over the agency's demand for the names of 300 clients affected by a cyberattack on the firm. The SEC sued Covington in January to force the prominent Washington-based firm to identify public company clients whose information was accessed or stolen in the breach. Mehta told an SEC lawyer that the subpoena puts Covington in the “very awkward position” of having to identify its clients to an enforcement agency without evidence of wrongdoing. “We’re not targeting any particular party,” SEC lawyer Eugene Hansen responded. A lawyer for Covington, Theodore Boutrous, said the SEC has made Covington a “test case” for new authority to scrutinize public companies through demands on their law firms following a hack.
☆ U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Exxon, Chevron appeals in climate cases
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Clark Mindock Nate Raymond | Clark Mindock | Nate Raymond | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
The justices turned away five appeals by the oil companies of lower court decisions that determined that the lawsuits belonged in state court, a venue often seen as more favorable to plaintiffs than federal court. A separate appeal filed by the oil companies challenging lower court decisions in cases out of New Jersey and Delaware is still pending before the Supreme Court. Theodore Boutrous, an attorney for Chevron, expressed confidence that the cases will be dismissed in state court. That decision prompted other federal appeals courts to reconsider whether they should send similar lawsuits by state and local governments back to state courts. Four other appeals courts reached similar conclusions in the lawsuits by Rhode Island and jurisdictions in California, Colorado, Hawaii and Maryland.
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