The Supreme Court allowed Honolulu’s lawsuit against oil companies to move forward on Monday. The justices declined without explanation to

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Sunoco and other oil companies to scuttle a lawsuit by Honolulu accusing them of misleading the public for decades about the dangers of climate change induced by the burning of fossil fuels.

The high court declined to hear a challenge to a major case in which Honolulu is suing energy companies over climate change.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Sunoco and other major oil companies attempting to halt Honolulu’s climate lawsuit. In the case, initially filed in 2020, fossil fuel companies are accused of misleading the public about the dangers of climate change caused by their products,