Action by California counties and cities seeking damages and other relief from fossil fuel companies for sea level rise. 

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp.

Litigation

Sabin

Sabin Litigation

memorandum

Missouri Federal Court Upheld Bankruptcy Court Order Requiring California Municipalities to Dismiss Lawsuits Against Peabody

Missouri Federal Court Denied California Local Governments’ Request for Stay Pending Appeal of Decision Enjoining Them from Pursuing Climate Claims Against Peabody Energy

Filing Year For Action

County of San Mateo v. Peabody Energy Corp. (In re Peabody Energy Corp.)

notice

City of Imperial Beach v. Chevron Corp. - notice

Defendants Removed Cases to Federal Court

City of Imperial Beach v. Chevron Corp.

County of Marin v. Chevron Corp. - notice

County of Marin v. Chevron Corp.

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - Other

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - notice

order

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - order

reply

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - reply

response

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - response

motion

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - motion

notice of voluntary dismissal

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - notice of voluntary dismissal

California Federal Court Granted Fossil Fuel Companies’ Motion to Stay Order Remanding Counties’ and City’s Climate Case to State Court

opposition

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - opposition

Fossil Fuel Companies Filed Notice of Appeal

notice of appeal

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - notice of appeal

California Federal Court Remanded San Mateo, Marin, and Imperial Beach Climate Cases to State Court

Federal Court to Hear Arguments on February 15 on Whether to Remand

complaint

Chevron Filed Third-Party Complaint Against Statoil in San Mateo and Imperial Beach Climate Change Lawsuits

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - memorandum

California Counties and City Sued Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Change Damages

order list

Supreme Court Denied Fossil Fuel Companies’ Requests for Certiorari on Jurisdictional Issues in State and Local Government Climate Cases

Chevron Corp. v. County of San Mateo - reply

brief

Chevron Corp. v. County of San Mateo - brief

amicus brief

Chevron Corp. v. County of San Mateo - amicus brief

petition for writ of certiorari

Certiorari Petition Filed Requesting Review of Jurisdictional Issues

Chevron Corp. v. County of San Mateo

Chevron Corp. v. County of San Mateo - petition for writ of certiorari

opinion

Eighth Circuit Affirmed Bankruptcy Discharge of Climate Claims Against Coal Company

County of San Mateo v. Peabody Energy Corp. (In re: Peabody Energy Corp.)

petition

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - petition

letter

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - letter

Ninth Circuit Denied Rehearing on Remand of California Local Government Climate Cases

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - amicus brief

petition for rehearing

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. - petition for rehearing

Ninth Circuit Said California Localities’ Climate Cases Should Return to State Court

Ninth Circuit Extended Stay of Mandate

Ninth Circuit Order Stayed Mandate After Affirming Remand of California Local Governments’ Climate Cases to State Court

Ninth Circuit Denied Rehearing of Decision Affirming Remand Order

Ninth Circuit Ruled for California Cities and Counties on Questions of Whether Climate Lawsuits Against Energy Companies Belonged in State or Federal Court

City of Oakland and County of San Mateo Appeals to Be Heard by Same Panel

California Localities Cited Additional Authorities for Limited Review by Ninth Circuit of Remand Order in Climate Cases

California Counties and Municipalities Argued for Affirmance of Order Remanding Climate Change Cases to State Court

Fossil Fuel Companies Urged Ninth Circuit to Rule That Local Governments’ Climate Cases Belong in Federal Court

Ninth Circuit Consolidated Fossil Fuel Companies’ Appeals of Remand Orders in Cases Brought by San Mateo County and Other Local Governments

California Municipalities Sought to Shut Down Fossil Fuel Companies’ Appeal of Order Remanding Climate Cases to State Court

In re Peabody Energy Corp. - order

California Counties and City Appealed Bankruptcy Court Order Enjoining Climate Change Lawsuits Against Peabody Energy

memorandum opinion

Bankruptcy Court Said California City and Counties Could Not Sue Coal Company for Climate Change Impacts

California Counties and City Argued for Keeping Peabody in Climate Case

Peabody Energy Sought Dismissal of California County and City Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies

In re Peabody Energy Corp.

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The process of adjusting to living in a changing climate. This can include altering behaviour, systems, and ways of life to reduce or avoid both current and future harms from climate impacts.

Codes and standards are regulatory instruments that specify minimum standards to protect health and safety. This ranges from performance standards, which prescribe outcomes while allowing flexibility to achieve compliance, to the more prescriptive approach of technology-specific standards.

Financial support to help individuals manage the effects of unexpected events, securing their livelihoods and increasing the resilience of people and businesses to the changing climate. It’s especially vital in developing regions where everyday risks, climate-related weather extremes, or crop failures can push people into poverty. Without insurance, people may have to resort to selling assets or cutting consumption to cope with losses.

A long-lived, colourless gas, chiefly emitted from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and cement production.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Social protection systems consist of policies that help people manage social risks in order to prevent poverty and maintain decent incomes and living standards

Oil is a combustible liquid fossil fuel composed mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring as crude oil and refined into petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and kerosene.

Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock formed from carbonised plant matter, rich in carbon and hydrocarbons, and occurring in several main types including hard coal and brown coal.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Fossil gas, commonly known as natural gas, is a fossil fuel consisting chiefly of methane with smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and trace gases, found in underground deposits.

Social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced

People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

This sector involves the wholesale and retail selling of goods.

The activities of industries that transforms raw materials into finished goods through industrial processes.

This sector creates and distributes information and entertainment through television, radio, print, and digital platforms.

Activities that involve the cultivation of crops and raising of livestock for food, fibre, and other products essential for human life and industry.

Activities of government agencies and institutions that provide public services, enforce laws and manage public resources.

Terrestrial means "of the earth" and relates to the risks to ecological system that includes all living organisms and their interactions within land-based environments, such as forests, grasslands, and deserts.

Air pollution involves harmful contaminants in the air, affecting both indoor and outdoor environments. It can lead to health issues like respiratory diseases and heart problems, and climate impacts such as global warming. Pollutants can damage plants, trees, habitats, and water bodies like rivers and lakes.

Slow onset events evolve gradually from incremental changes over many years or from increased frequency or intensity of recurring events. As defined in the Cancun Adaptation Framework (2010), slow onset events include risks and impacts from rising temperatures, desertification, biodiversity loss, land and forest degradation, glacial retreat, ocean acidification, sea level rise, and salinization.

Risks to the ecosystem health of the marine environment, including ocean warming, ocean acidification, and ocean deoxygenation, harming biodiversity, species health, ecosystem services, and coastal community livelihoods.

Climate change can have a range of impacts on technological system. Extreme weather events can cause infrastructure failures like power outages or damage to roads and bridges, as well as the impacts from waste following natural disasters. Human activities also cause technological impacts, such as the risks posed by oil spillage and leaks.

Extreme weather refers to events where a weather variable exceeds (or falls below) a threshold. Meaning it is significantly different from the average or usual weather pattern.

An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

Financial actors and resources that are primarily directed towards climate change mitigation, adaptation and compensation.

An enterprise or financial institution that is usually majority-owned, backed or significantly controlled by nation-state governments.

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