Judge Remands Minnesota’s Climate Change Suit, Finds No Federal Claims Raised

(April 5, 2021, 12:03 PM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Minnesota on March 31 remanded a lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general claiming that the American Petroleum Institute (API), Exxon Mobil Corp. and others misled consumers about the association between burning fossil fuels and climate change, finding that the action does not raise federal issues because it does not involve the extraction and production of petroleum products....