DOJ files complaint against Minnesota over climate lawsuit targeting energy companies
The lawsuit targets Minnesota’s role in climate litigation that the DOJ says exceeds federal authority and burdens domestic energy development.
- On Monday, May 4, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a formal complaint against the State of Minnesota to block a state-level climate change lawsuit targeting major energy companies.
- The federal complaint argues that Minnesota is attempting to regulate global greenhouse gas emissions through state-court litigation, a power the DOJ maintains belongs exclusively to the federal government under the Clean Air Act.
- Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward stated that Minnesota’s "woke climate preferences" cannot be used to undermine President Trump's executive order aimed at "unleashing American energy dominance" and ensuring national economic security. 4 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison slammed the DOJ’s move as "frivolous and meritless," accusing the administration of "selling out to Big Oil" to help companies like ExxonMobil and Koch Industries avoid accountability for alleged consumer deception.
- The federal intervention comes just weeks after the Minnesota Supreme Court cleared the way for the state’s original 2020 lawsuit to proceed to discovery, after years of failed attempts by energy companies to move the case out of state court.
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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice went on offense Monday, filing a federal complaint against the State of Minnesota and Attorney General Keith Ellison over the state’s climate lawsuit targeting major energy companies. The DOJ says Minnesota is trying to use a state courtroom to regulate global greenhouse gas emissions, an area that belongs to the federal government. The filing asks a federal judge to shut the whole thing down. The c…
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