Judge turns courtroom into classroom

Alsup may want to get the companies’ views in the court record, said Michael Wara, a lawyer at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment who studies climate and energy policy.

“That could speak to the lawsuits’ claims that these companies were not forthcoming about their internal thinking about climate change,” Wara said.

Alsup is considering two lawsuits, one by San Francisco and the other by neighbouring Oakland, that accuse and of long fossil fuels