Colorado Supreme Court Allows Boulder Climate Suit to Proceed

The Colorado Supreme Court handed another win to climate plaintiffs on Monday, ruling that Boulder County and the City of Boulder can move forward with their deception and nuisance claims against oil majors.

The lower Colorado court that greenlit the municipalities’ tort claims was not wrong in doing so, and although the case “presents substantial issues of global import,” the question before the court is “narrow,” according to the decision authored by Justice Richard L. Gabriel.

“At root, defendants appear to be arguing that a vague federal interest over interstate ...