by Nick Pope
The Daily Caller
The Biden administration dealt a blow to energy producers by arguing Wednesday that the Supreme Court should not intervene in ongoing legal assaults against energy companies across the country, but legal experts say that the recent filings will not meaningfully impede the Trump administration from taking a different course.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in Wednesday filings that the Biden administration believes it is inappropriate for the Supreme Court to intervene in state or municipal lawsuits against energy producers seeking to make those companies fork over billions of dollars to compensate for their purported roles in causing climate change. While the outgoing Biden administration sided with the Democrat jurisdictions bringing these suits, Prelogar’s filings will not get in the Trump administration’s way, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“I doubt the Biden filing will have any impact. The Trump administration will likely withdraw it and file its own brief,” Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow for the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute, told the DCNF. “These lawsuits should be barred from federal court since climate is inherently a political question that should be settled by elected officials versus courts.”
