Climate Cases Face More Delay After Big Oil’s High Court Win

Exxon Mobil Corp. and other oil and gas companies gained fresh tools to block high-stakes climate litigation from advancing in states across the country after winning a procedural fight at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The justices on Monday ruled that a lower court should have reviewed an array of industry arguments for shifting a Baltimore climate case from state to federal judges.

The upshot for everyone involved in climate litigation: more procedural wrangling and further delay.

“It’s not far-reaching as a substantive matter, but this is par for the course for the industry in terms of its litigation tactics,” said ...