Oil Companies Fight Climate Lawsuits by Citing Free Speech Theodore J Boutrous Jr , a veteran First Amendment lawyer who represents Chevron in the climate litigation, said the lawsuits against the oil companies are centered on political speech by the
Oil Giants Invoke Free Speech to Combat Climate Change Legal . . . They argue that the companies’ efforts to characterize their communications as free speech undermine accountability for environmental harms In recent years, several U S cities and states have taken legal action, hoping to hold the industry responsible for its role in contributing to climate change
Fossil Fuel Companies Are Silencing Us All | The Nation Free speech and civil liberty organizations have been sounding the alarm for months about how this decision could chill speech in the United States for everyone The jury’s verdict, which
The Law Firm Helping Big Oil Weaponize the First Amendment Chevron and other oil companies’ statements about climate change, Gibson Dunn has argued, constitute First Amendment protected “political speech” — or speech concerning public opinion and policy
‘Blood in the Water’: How an Oil Company’s Victory Over . . . A striking verdict against Greenpeace, finding it liable for more than $600 million in damages for supporting the Standing Rock protests, will chill free expression and launch a new era for speech lawsuits, First Amendment lawyers say
Jury Verdict Against Greenpeace Rewards Corporate Attack on . . . WASHINGTON, March 19, 2025— In a case that put the right to free speech on the line, a jury in North Dakota today found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages claimed by Energy Transfer— the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline— which sued the environmental group for its role in protest actions in 2016-2017
Climate friendly investment firms sue Texas Comptroller . . . Two investment firms sued Texas Thursday, over a law they claim is infringing on their rights to free speech and equal protection But the state's Comptroller says the profitable indexes put