(The Center Square) — The U.S. Justice Department has stepped in on Chevron’s side in a high-stakes Louisiana coastal lawsuit, urging the Supreme Court to move the case from state court to federal court.
The case – Plaquemines Parish v. Chevron USA, Inc. – is the first of 42 similar lawsuits seeking billions of dollars for decades of damage to Louisiana’s vanishing wetlands.
Chevron says because its…