In Colorado, officials in the city of Boulder and Boulder County have filed a lawsuit against Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil. They are seeking monetary damages for costs incurred responding to wildfires, repairing transportation infrastructure, restoring watersheds and other devastation caused by climate change.
The officials are not seeking to regulate emissions or fossil fuel production, but they want the companies to help pay for harms Boulder contends were caused by their industry.
Some counties, however, have filed court records in support of Suncor and Exxon Mobil at taxpayers’ expense. When Deirdre Macnab learned hers was one of them, she rallied her fellow ranchers in support of Boulder’s cause…