By The Epoch Times | Created at 2026-10-05 15:02:03 | Updated at 2026-10-05 16:23:42
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Thousands of people take part in the so-called "Great People's March" in the sidelines of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Nov. 15, 2025. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 5 regarding a lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, demanding compensation from energy companies for local weather damage allegedly caused by global greenhouse gas emissions.
The question before the court, however, is not whether global warming theories hold water. It’s whether local courts throughout the United States should have the authority to extract billions of dollars from energy companies for damage allegedly caused by global emissions.
The energy companies argue that giving such power to local courts would allow municipalities to effectively impose a massive nationwide carbon tax with the potential to bankrupt the U.S. energy industry.
The FBI arrested a Californian woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 4 on suspicion of acting as an unregistered agent for Beijing and surveilling a close relative of a Taiwanese government official, officials said.
“Heather” Zhang Wanying, 34, who lives in Irvine, Orange County, was taken into custody by the FBI Los Angeles when she attempted to leave the United States for China, according to First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bilal Essayli.
