Speaking of climate change regulatory costs, good news from the courts in Charleston, SC. Environmentalists had filed sham lawsuits suing oil and gas companies for ignoring the impact of fossil fuels on the atmosphere. Dozens of similar lawsuits have been launched across the country.

But this week, the greens struck out in South Carolina court, as The New York Times headline shouts out:

Roughly three dozen similar [climate] cases have been filed across the country since 2017, mostly by Democratic-led states, cities and municipalities…

Charleston was an early test of the Trump administration’s possible impact on these lawsuits. In April, President Trump issued an executive order calling the legal complaints a threat to national security, saying they could lead to crippling damages…

In Charleston, Judge Young echoed decisions in favor of the defendants in other cases, writing that the lawsuits would create a “chaotic web of conflicting legal obligations” for companies as municipalities imposed de facto regulations on fossil fuels.

The climate-industrial complex is losing in the elections, the courts and in the court of public opinion. Americans want affordable and reliable energy and that mostly comes from hydrocarbon fuels – not windmills.