The Manufacturers’ Accountability Project (MAP) has criticized the United States 4th Circuit Court of Appeals’ April 6 ruling that remanded a climate change lawsuit—lodged by Baltimore against multinational oil companies—to state rather than federal courts for resolution.
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel “misses the real issue here,” MAP special counsel Phil Goldberg said in a statement.
“Baltimore’s case, which the court acknowledges is novel, may be creatively packaged under state law, but the nature of climate change—this litigation and the remedies they seek—are all inherently beyond the scope of any state.”
The accountability project is an initiative sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) legal center. NAM is the largest manufacturing association in the nation, representing small and large producers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states.
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