"A federal judge has dismissed a suit brought by the city that would have forced fossil fuel companies to pay for some costs of climate change."

"A federal judge has rejected New York City’s lawsuit to make fossil fuel companies help pay the costs of dealing with climate change.

Judge John F. Keenan of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote that climate change must be addressed by the executive branch and Congress, not by the courts.

While climate change “is a fact of life,” Judge Keenan wrote, “the serious problems caused thereby are not for the judiciary to ameliorate. Global warming and solutions thereto must be addressed by the two other branches of government.”"

John Schwartz reports for the New York Times July 19, 2018. [2]