Vermont Democrats prepare for a long fight in federal court, but they believe making oil companies pay for past greenhouse gas emissions will eventually pass legal muster.

Vermont and New York passed “climate superfund” laws, which levy billions in fines against oil companies for legal products, ...

Gov. Hochul keeps kicking the climate-change can down the road, postponing New York’s aggressive emissions laws — but her ...

Climate superfunds are cumbersome, violate due process, and do not help in the fight against climate change. Some states are ...

On June 17, 2025 the Institute for Energy Research, in partnership with C3 Solutions, hosted a webinar for policymakers ...

West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey warns New York and Vermont laws imposing billions in climate liabilities would ...

On June 17, 2025 the Institute for Energy Research, in partnership with C3 Solutions, hosted a webinar for policymakers ...

The Massachusetts proposal would generate $75 billion over 25 years and would hold accountable fossil fuel companies that have “knowingly endangered our world for decades, putting our lives ...

Trenton — Today more than 100 New Jerseyans — backed by dozens of environmental, labor, faith, and community organizations — rallied at the Statehouse Annex to call for urgent action on the New Jersey ...

In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting state climate programs, specifically calling out Vermont's and New York’s polluter-pays laws and threatening legal action ...

A New York law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul that would impose as much as $75 billion in liabilities on major fossil fuel companies by forcing them to pay into a state "climate super-fund" depending ...

The climate superfund also faces resistance from a powerful ally of Big Oil: ... The Trump administration, for instance, sued New York and Vermont over their climate superfund measures, ...