"The Trump administration is suing Vermont and New York for using novel tactics to curb greenhouse gas emissions."
"A recent Supreme Court decision allowing a soldier to sue a military contractor in state court undercuts the Trump administration’s efforts to erase state climate laws, New York state and a coalition of environmental groups contend.
The Department of Justice last spring sued New York and Vermont in an effort to invalidate the states’ “climate superfund” laws that seek payment from energy producers for greenhouse gas emissions. But in notices filed Tuesday and last week in two federal courts, groups supporting the states say the Supreme Court’s recent ruling suggests the states have the edge.
In their April 22 decision in Hencely v. Fluor Corp., the justices found that a soldier injured in a suicide bombing on an American base in Afghanistan can sue a military contractor in state court for failing to supervise the employee who built the explosive vest."
