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For years, California was the poster child of\u00a0environmental overkill. That distinction now belongs to Hawaii. About 2,400 miles away from the West Coast and with no oil fields of its own, the Aloha State depends on imports to fuel its tourism industry, run its grid and make everyday life possible.<\/p>\n

But Hawaii\u2019s oil dependence hasn\u2019t kept it from waging an all-out litigation war against energy companies. Hawaii Attorney General\u00a0Anne\u00a0Lopez<\/a>\u00a0along with\u00a0Honolulu<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Maui\u00a0are suing the oil and gas industry for untold billions based on alleged climate-related harms. These sweeping cases reveal the political corruption that infects Hawaii\u2019s legal system and demands federal investigation and pre-emption of Hawaii\u2019s shakedown of the energy industry.<\/p>\n

First, the lawsuits conveniently exclude the state\u2019s sole refinery and leading supplier of gasoline and jet fuel, Par Pacific and\u00a0its subsidiary Par Hawaii.\u00a0According to\u00a0campaign finance filings, its executives have donated to the state\u2019s Democratic leaders, including Gov. Josh Green. But under Hawaii\u2019s theory of the case, the energy refiners in the state, not to mention its energy users, produce the emissions that most directly harm the islands\u2019 environment.<\/p>\n

Second, the courts in other solidly blue jurisdictions<\/a> have\u00a0repeatedly\u00a0rejected identical cases, citing longstanding precedent putting the federal government in charge of setting interstate and international emissions standards.<\/p>\n

CLIMATE JUSTICE GROUP HAS DEEP TIES TO JUDGES, EXPERTS INVOLVED IN LITIGATION AMID CLAIMS OF IMPARTIALITY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

But prominent Aloha State judges,\u00a0including those involved in the Honolulu case, have collaborated with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and its Climate Judiciary Project (CJP), which calls the impartiality of the state judiciary into question. The organizations share staff\u00a0and\u00a0donors\u00a0with Sher Edling LLP, the law firm representing Honolulu and numerous other local governments suing energy companies over climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The close relationship between ELI and climate lawyers didn\u2019t stop\u00a0three justices\u00a0on the Hawaii Supreme Court from participating in ELI-CLP sponsored events. One of them, Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald further\u00a0directed\u00a0his clerk to help an expert working on the climate cases to understand the\u00a0Daubert\u00a0standard “used by judges to assess an expert witness\u2019s scientific testimony” and previously provided a “helpful” primer to Kerry Emmanuel, an expert retained by the climate plaintiffs in another case against the energy industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite these behind-the-scenes efforts, Chief Justice Recktenwald authored the Hawaii Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0opinion<\/a>\u00a0in the Honolulu\u00a0<\/i>case, which delivered a major win for the climate plaintiffs. One of the chief justice\u2019s colleagues displayed his bias even more overtly in a concurrence that suggested the U.S. Supreme Court should reach the same outcome regardless of the text of federal law because the high court “could use a little Aloha.”<\/p>\n

SUPREME COURT MUST FREEZE THE CLIMATE EXTORTION OF OUR ENERGY INDUSTRY<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Third, after the Hawaii Supreme Court declined to dismiss the Honolulu case, the presiding lower state court<\/a> has let the plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys\u00a0use discovery to conduct a fishing expedition in service of a broader anti-energy lawfare campaign. Hawaii\u2019s courts should have suspended their proceedings while the foundational legal question underlying the roughly 30 identical lawsuits \u2014 whether state tort claims against energy companies for global climate change belong in federal or state court \u2014 is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court in\u00a0Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.<\/p>\n

Outside of Hawaii, judges in California, New Jersey<\/a> and elsewhere have paused climate litigation for an obvious reason. The Supreme Court gets thousands of petitions every year, but agrees to hear only a\u00a0tiny fraction\u00a0of them. In the extremely rare event that a case makes it to the nation\u2019s highest court, there\u2019s a distinct possibility the justices will set a new standard or wipe out entire categories of claims altogether.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Honolulu is effectively racing to extract maximum document production and hundreds of sworn executive testimonies before a ruling potentially narrows or eliminates the legal basis for all these suits. A court-appointed special master responsible has ordered the energy companies to rummage through their files for 75 years of documents connected with the production and sale of energy products around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apart from the massive cost that this paper chase would impose on the companies, the documents won\u2019t prove consumer deception. That requires the company to conceal information that the public didn\u2019t know already. Consumers have been aware of global warming<\/a> for decades but have chosen to use fossil fuels at\u00a0the same levels\u00a0they did 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

More information about climate change may be helpful but it\u2019s not sufficiently compelling to get most of the world to stop demanding the energy they need to do things they want, like cool their homes, power their devices, and maybe even vacation in Hawaii. That\u2019s assuming the Aloha State hasn\u2019t by then turned on the travel industry for aiding and abetting oil and gas producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michael\u00a0Toth is the director of research at the Civitas Institute.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM JOHN YOO<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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