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美国华盛顿特区最高法院，2026年1月14日（周三）。
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美国最高法院周一同意受理来自化石燃料生产商的重大环境诉讼上诉，这些生产商希望摆脱科罗拉多州一座城市提起的诉讼——该市要求追究他们对气候变化的责任。
最高法院的这一决定可能对其他由州和地方政府提起的、索赔数十亿美元损失的诉讼产生广泛影响。
这起上诉是在科罗拉多州最高法院去年做出裁决之后提出的。当时科罗拉多州最高法院驳回了森科尔能源公司（Suncor Energy）和埃克森美孚公司（Exxon Mobil）试图以《清洁空气法》优先于州法律为由驳回科罗拉多州博尔德市（Boulder, Colorado）诉讼的请求。
“科罗拉多州博尔德市不能为整个国家制定能源政策，”行业律师向最高法院表示，并补充说，大法官们应该介入以“明确州法律不能将全球气候变化的成本强加给由单一城市选定的全球能源生产商中的一部分”。
以6比3的保守派多数票组成的最高法院近年来多次驳回环保主义者的诉求。去年5月，最高法院以全票通过的裁决限制了对重大基础设施项目的环境审查范围，这一决定预计将加快高速公路、机场和管道项目的审批。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统领导的政府敦促大法官们受理此案，他们辩称，如果允许科罗拉多州继续诉讼，“全球的能源公司不仅将面临数十亿美元的损失赔偿，还将面临在任何特定地区其行为受多重规则制约的局面——因为一个又一个城市会试图追究这些公司在全球任何地方的化石燃料活动的责任。”
博尔德市起诉这些公司，称它们故意向公众隐瞒了气候风险。该市在向最高法院提交的回应中表示，最高法院不应在诉讼的早期阶段介入这场法律纠纷，并拒绝了联邦法律阻碍其诉讼请求推进的说法。
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Supreme Court to decide if Colorado city can sue oil companies for climate change
2 min read | By John Fritze | 22 min ago | PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2026, 9:38 AM ET
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a major environmental appeal from fossil fuel producers who are hoping to shake off a lawsuit from a Colorado city that wants to hold them responsible for climate change.
The court’s decision could have broad implications for numerous other lawsuits filed by state and local governments seeking billions of dollars in damages.
The appeal follows a decision from the Colorado Supreme Court last year that rejected an effort by Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil to get the lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, tossed out on the grounds that such state-law claims are preempted by the Clean Air Act.
“Boulder, Colorado, cannot make energy policy for the entire country,” an attorney for the industry told the Supreme Court, adding that justices should step in to “clarify that state law cannot impose the costs of global climate change on a subset of the world’s energy producers chosen by a single municipality.”
The 6-3 conservative Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled against environmentalists in recent years. In May, a unanimous court limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision that was expected to speed up approvals of highways, airports and pipelines.
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President Donald Trump’s administration urged the justices to take the case, arguing that if Colorado was allowed to pursue its case “energy companies across the globe will be subject not only to billions of dollars in damages, but also to a multiplicity of rules governing their conduct in any given location, as one city after another seeks to hold the companies liable for fossil-fuel activities anywhere in the world.”
Boulder sued the companies arguing they knowingly misled the public about climate risks. In its response to the Supreme Court, the city said the Supreme Court shouldn’t get into the legal fight at an early stage of the litigation and it rejected the idea that federal law blocked their claims from moving forward.
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