(July 31, 2018, 11:43 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California in July 27 granted a motion filed by four fossil fuel sellers in which they argued that the cities of Oakland and San Francisco lacked personal jurisdiction to pursue claims that the companies’ marketing of fossil fuels contributed to climate change and rising sea levels that now threaten the cities, holding that the municipalities failed to demonstrate that their injuries would have occurred without the companies’ activities in the state (City of Oakland v. BP Plc, et al., No. 17-06011, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 126258)....