Energy Allies Urge Justices to Take Up Hawaii Climate Questions

Republican-led states, legal organizations, and energy industry groups threw their support behind a petition that urges the US Supreme Court to review a recent Hawaii climate victory.

Groups submitted a flurry of arguments in support of oil companies in multiple friend-of-the-court briefs filed on Monday. They argue that a Honolulu climate case win at the Hawaii Supreme Court raises national security and emissions issues that are strictly the purview of federal bodies.

“The stakes could hardly be higher,” according to a brief from the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce. “If Hawaii and like-minded states succeed in imposing an unwieldy ...