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Maui County’s lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is still winding its way through state court.

Maui is among more than two dozen states and municipalities, including Honolulu that are suing fossil fuel companies for climate damages.

Baltimore is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the oil industry’s bid to have the city’s multimillion-dollar climate change suit litigated in federal court.

Supreme Court hears dispute with big implications for climate-change litigation Robert Barnes © Drew Angerer/Getty Images A gas flare from the Shell Chemical LP petroleum refinery lights up the sky in Norco, La. There is likely to be a titanic legal battle one day between local governments and the fossil-fuel energy companies that officials blame for the climate-change damage they say their cities have suffered. But the warm-up act at the Supreme Court on Tuesday was the kind of argument only a lawyer could love. BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore could answer ...

The issue concerns whether state or federal courts are the appropriate venue for such cases.