President Donald Trump's second term has seen the United States go all-in to boost Big Oil and block renewables -- yet a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry continues to advance.

Now Republicans are moving to shut them down with a two-pronged strategy: pushing for a federal shield law and urging the Supreme Court to intervene.

"The issue for the oil companies is that they know they did it," Richard Wiles, president of the nonprofit Center for Climate Integrity, told AFP.

"Their only avenue out of this is to get some kind of a waiver of liability, make the cases go away, bar the courthouse doors, get a 'get out of jail free card.'"

Dozens of cases modeled on successful actions against the tobacco industry in the 1990s are playing out in state

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