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Challenge to Minnesota tests constitutional limits of state climate litigation

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Federal government seeks to frame Minnesota’s climate lawsuit as attempt to regulate global emissions through state law.

As Washington and several states continue to move in sharply different directions on climate policy, the US Department of Justice has opened another front in what is becoming a broader constitutional and economic struggle over who gets to shape America’s energy future.

This week, the Justice Department filed a