Booming Climate Litigation Movement Faces Supreme Court Test

Baltimore officials had natural disasters on their minds in 2018 when they filed an ambitious climate lawsuit that’s now reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

That spring, the city and neighboring areas were still recovering from flash floods that turned some local streets into rivers and tore up buildings in their path. The destruction came just two years after another storm inundated the region.

Linking the deluges and other extreme weather to climate change, Baltimore is waging a legal war to put oil and gas companies on the hook for the local impacts of burning ...