The US supreme court denied a plea from big oil to move the venue of a 2020 climate lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota.

The decision, issued on Monday morning, puts the state one important step closer to putting the fossil fuel industry on trial for allegedly covering up the dangers of burning coal, oil and gas.

Minnesota in 2020 sued the US’s top oil lobbying firm the American Petroleum Institute, major oil and gas producer ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, which is tied to the fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch. The case alleges that the companies engaged in a decades-long campaign to deceive the public about climate change and attempts to force the companies to pay for the effects of the climate crisis on Minnesotans.

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