The Maryland Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed lawsuits brought by Baltimore City, Annapolis and Anne Arundel County against more than two dozen oil and gas giants, dealing a blow to local efforts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for damages from climate change…Baltimore first sued 26 fossil fuel companies — including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and the American Petroleum Institute — in 2018, alleging that the industry had misled the public for decades about the causes of climate change. While jurisdictions argued they filed suits focused on the firms’ deceptive marketing practices about climate change, the state Supreme Court disagreed, determining that the local governments were actually trying to regulate interstate emissions, which rests solely with the federal government, under the federal Clean Air Act. Source: thebanner.com and marylandmatters.org