( July 14, 2026, 17:24 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Michigan attorney general disputed the US Department of Justice’s arguments against the state’s antitrust claims against BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute, saying the agency has no basis on which to preempt the state’s state-law antitrust claim, and it knows it. “In disparaging the state’s complaint as ‘artful pleading,’ the US emphasizes that it ‘mentions "climate" nearly 150 times’ and argues that the state ‘is attempting to impose liability for wholly out-of-state conduct related to global greenhouse gas emissions and regulate that conduct under state law.’ Not so. The complaint challenges defendants’ anticompetitive conduct restricting renewable energy output, which does not include the emission of greenhouse gases,” the AG said. See attached file. ...
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