US Supreme Court weighs bid by oil companies to avoid climate lawsuit ↧ ↧ US Supreme Court weighs bid by oil companies to avoid climate lawsuit The US Supreme Court is ​set on Monday to hear a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart a ‌lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change, as the justices open a new nine-month term.