• Here’s what happened: Should a single municipality be able to manipulate energy policy for the entire country? That’s the question before the U.S. Supreme Court in the city of Honolulu’s climate nuisance lawsuit.
  
• Get the details: Honolulu is just one of the dozens of cities, states and municipalities that have filed climate nuisance lawsuits against energy companies in state courts, but it’s the first lawsuit to begin moving through the legal system. How it is decided will have a ripple effect on other climate nuisance cases around the country.
• Still developing: Last month, SCOTUS asked the Biden administration to weigh in on Honolulu’s lawsuit, presumably because of its implications on national energy policy and security.
• What about Texas? Texas and 19 other states filed an amicus brief detailing the conflicts between Honolulu’s goals and the energy policies of other states.
• TLR Thoughts: With billions of dollars and national climate policy on the line, SCOTUS has an opportunity to clarify, once and for all, the appropriate venue for and use of public nuisance litigation. How they decide this issue could either check the proliferation of these lawsuits or open the floodgates to more litigation. 

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