The U.S. Justice Department yesterday urged the Supreme Court to deny two requests for the high court to intervene in state and local lawsuits that seek to hold Big Oil companies accountable for lying to the public about their products’ role in climate change. The briefs filed late yesterday in Sunoco, et al. v. Honolulu and Alabama, et al. v. California, et al. by Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar mark the second and third times that the Biden administration has filed briefs urging the high court to allow such cases to continue advancing in state courts.