Climate lawfare raises the cost of energy, transportation, and everyday goods for American families. Unlimited, retroactive liability against energy producers ripples through the entire supply chain before landing on consumers. Stable and predictable policy supports investment, innovation, and lower costs. Endless litigation does the opposite.

Affordable, reliable energy is the foundation of American manufacturing, defense readiness, and technological leadership. Prolonged litigation uncertainty weakens supply chains, delays critical infrastructure, and gives strategic competitors, like China, an advantage they have done nothing to earn. A legal environment that discourages domestic energy investment is a national security liability.

These lawsuits seek to circumvent Congress by pursuing through state courts what activists could not achieve through the appropriate democratic process. National energy policy belongs in the hands of elected officials who answer to voters, not in handpicked jurisdictions chosen for favorable outcomes.

America’s energy markets do not stop at state lines, and the rules governing them should not either. A patchwork of conflicting state court decisions or mandates produces legal chaos that raises costs and deters the investment needed to keep energy affordable and reliable. Interstate challenges of this scale require a single national framework set by Congress.

In these cases across the U.S., the same plaintiffs’ firms, legal theories, and expert networks appear in dozens of jurisdictions. The pattern is as clear as it is coordinated. Private attorneys working on contingency fees stand to collect billions, giving them a direct financial stake in outcomes that would reshape national energy policy to the detriment of the American consumer. Americans deserve to know who is driving these cases, who is funding them, and who stands to profit.