Overview
- Alito will stay on the case after court counsel said his recusal is not required because he has no financial interest in the parties.
- The dispute centers on ExxonMobil and Suncor’s bid to dismiss Colorado’s lawsuit seeking money for harms linked to climate change.
- A ruling could limit state efforts to use local laws to make energy companies pay for climate impacts in their communities.
- Liberal groups urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate and pointed to his stakes in ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66 and other energy firms as a trust issue.
- In 2023 he was recused from a related Colorado appeal, which the Court later said happened inadvertently because other linked cases involved his stock holdings.