On February 6, 2025, a 22-state alliance filed a lawsuit against New York State for its “Climate Super Fund” law This would require a small percentage of energy companies to retroactively pay for damages caused by climate change. [emphasis, links added]
The defendants mentioned in this lawsuit are New York Attorney General Letitia James and two other New York state officials. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Albany Division in the upstate New York Region.
Leaded by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, The lawsuit believes that the Climate Change Super Fund Act is unconstitutional.
Joining McCuskey in the lawsuit are attorneys general from nearly two dozen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Miss issippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota , Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
The other plaintiffs in the lawsuit are three coal trading groups and a large coal mine company, Alpha Mallurgical Resources.
The Climate Change Super Fund Act will charge fossil fuel companies $700 million in “climate change losses.”
Mr McKuski explained that the lawsuit was to ensure that “these misleading policies that were forced to enter the entire country from one country would not lead to the United States in the downturn of the energy crisis, allowing China, India and Russia to surpass our energy independence.”
Lawyers in these states believe that the Climate Change Super Fund Act is a politically motivated “transcendence.”
New York State believes it can grasp control over the composition of the U.S. energy industry…
They blame New York State Trying to force producers and energy consumers in other states to “subsidize certain New York-based “infrastructure” projects, such as the new sewer system in New York City.”
“If we allow New York to escape this, it will be only a matter of time before other states follow suit – Destroy our country's power grid.transparent
They believe these energy producers are fully compliant with federal laws and “They cannot reasonably expect that they will be punished for their legal actions.”
In addition, the lawyers general believe that the energy companies have taken action under the Federal Clean Air Act. Force them to pay billions of dollars now under this law can provide them with any option to go bankrupt, This will also lead to a large amount of unemployment.
“New York State believes it can seize control of the composition of the U.S. energy industry,” the lawsuit states.
“In an unprecedented effort, New York plans to impose tens of thousands of dollars in responsibility on some traditional energy producers that are unfavorable to New York politicians.”
They believe this could also lead to an energy crisis.
The lawsuit noted that fossil fuels “helped keeping lights in Albany, made steel that supports New York City’s iconic skyscrapers and fueled the industry that made New York ports buzz.”
On the other end of the coin, New York State claims that it may have to spend “hundreds of millions” of climate adaptation investments until 2050.
Experts describe New York City's current sewage system as “old” and is not suitable for increasing climate-related storm surges and extreme rainfall.
Last September, when Storm Ophelia landed in New York City, the state's highways and a subway line were flooded.
Of course, although the statistics clearly show that the storm has not worsened.
The Super Fund Act for Climate Change states:
“Based on decades of research, it is now possible to accurately determine the share of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by a particular fossil fuel company over the past 70 years or more, thus potentially allocating responsibility to and requiring a proportionate company Compensation for emissions over a given period of time.”
A spokesman for New York Governor Hochul told Reuters that the governor “thinks that corporate polluters should pay for wreckage caused by the climate crisis, not New Yorkers every day. …We look forward to defending this landmark in court legislation,” the spokesperson added.
On July 18, 2019, New York State passed a law called the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
The law requires New York to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 2030 and 85% by 2050.
In addition, New York City passed the Climate Mobilization Act, which sets goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency in certain buildings in New York City.
There is no doubt that this issue will end in the U.S. Supreme Court because it is allegedly unconstitutional. Furthermore, it has never been proven that hydrocarbon emissions cause the temperature of the earth to rise.
This will need to be discussed in any future lawsuits. Perhaps this should be addressed before any other such laws are passed.
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