(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court should do its job and decide on the merits in a consequential climate case before it, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday.
Justices will hear arguments Monday in Suncor v. Boulder County Commissioners, one of dozens of cases filed in state courts by Democrat-run state and local governments against oil and gas companies in an attempt to make them pay billions of dollars in damages related to climate change.
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