The Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against four states over the past two days, including two preemptive actions to block suits from being filed against oil companies over their purported role in climate change.

DOJ announced it had filed the preemptive lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan on Wednesday, followed by complaints against New York and Vermont on Thursday over their “climate superfund laws.”

“These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the release. “The Department of Justice is working to ‘Unleash American Energy’ by stopping these illegitimate impediments to the production of affordable, reliable energy that Americans deserve.”

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