( January 6, 2025, 10:26 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two groups of oil companies argue in separate supplemental U.S. Supreme Court briefs that Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar fails to justify elements of the United States’ position and mischaracterizes federal common-law arguments in an amicus curiae brief filed in two related cases expressing views on whether the Hawaii Supreme Court erred in finding that claims arising from the companies’ alleged efforts to conceal effects their fossil fuel products would have on global climate change are not preempted by federal law....