Climate lawfare is running into a powerful force liberals didn’t expect

Just as radical climate activists try major protests, others have pursued lawfare. More than two dozen suits have been filed with the aim of forcing major change on the energy industry.

John Yoo is a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Civic Leadership and a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, the Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

More than two dozen cities and states have filed nearly identical climate-change lawsuits, creating significant risk for energy companies and consumers who enjoy the quality of life cheap and abundant power provides.