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The Climate Litigation Swindle

A flood of lawsuits utilizing junk science seeks to bankrupt energy companies and undermine the basis of American power.

May 16, 2026
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City Journal’s Spring 2026 Cover (by Hiroyuki Izutsu)

By Heather Mac Donald

The Trump administration has declared the “Green New Scam”—as President Trump terms it—finished. The United States will no longer hobble its industrial base with unrealistic renewable-energy mandates while China and India burn coal without restraint, the White House has announced.

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