By John Fritze, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a major environmental appeal from fossil fuel producers who are hoping to shake off a lawsuit from a Colorado city that wants to hold them responsible for climate change.

The court’s decision could have broad implications for numerous other lawsuits filed by state and local governments seeking billions of dollars in damages.

The appeal follows a decision from the Colorado Supreme Court last year that rejected an effort by Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil to get the lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, tossed out on the grounds that such state-law claims are preempted by the Clean Air Act.

“Boulder, Colorado, cannot make energy policy for the entire country,” an attorney for the industry told the Supreme Court, adding that justices should step in to “clarify that state law cannot impose the costs of global climate change on a subset of the world’s energy producers chosen by a single municipality.”

The 6-3 conservative Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled against environmentalists in recent years. In May, a unanimous court limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision that was expected to speed up approvals of highways, airports and pipelines.

President Donald Trump’s administration urged the justices to take the case, arguing that if Colorado was allowed to pursue its case “energy companies across the globe will be subject not only to billions of dollars in damages, but also to a multiplicity of rules governing their conduct in any given location, as one city after another seeks to hold the companies liable for fossil-fuel activities anywhere in the world.”

Boulder sued the companies arguing they knowingly misled the public about climate risks. In its response to the Supreme Court, the city said the Supreme Court shouldn’t get into the legal fight at an early stage of the litigation and it rejected the idea that federal law blocked their claims from moving forward.

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By Kara Alaimo, CNN

(CNN) — Something unusual and exciting has been happening in Alison Lundberg’s household lately: Her landline has been ringing.

There’s “an actual thrill that runs through our household when the phone rings,” said Lundberg, a San Diego-based communications executive.

Part of the reason is that her family has no idea who’s calling since they don’t have caller ID.

It had been decades since Lundberg had a landline. She got one recently to protect her 4-year-old daughter, Ava, she said.

Last summer, Ava’s preschool camp did a lesson on safety, teaching her to call 911 in an emergency.

At home, Lundberg reiterated for her daughter that she should call 911 if someone’s sick, there’s a fire or there’s another kind of an emergency.

“All of a sudden, I had this realization,” said Lundberg, whose family members only had mobile phones. “How would my 4-year-old actually do that?”

So, Lundberg got the landline about five months ago. Now when she travels for work, she doesn’t have to worry about what her daughter will do if something happens to her husband.

But it’s not the only reason Lundberg is happy about the situation. She is among many parents who say bringing back landlines is benefiting their kids, making the adults nostalgic and bringing them all joy.

Staving off social media and improving communication

These days, Ava mostly talks on the phone to her grandparents, who all live out of state. Doing so allows her to manage her relationship with them, so her parents don’t have to schedule calls. Lundberg will still listen in from the stairs sometimes, “because it’s pretty hilarious.”

Fostering these kinds of connections means “there’s some joy” in having a landline, Lundberg said.

It doesn’t work as well when your kids get older if their peers don’t have landlines, which is why Lundberg has convinced some mom friends to join what she calls her “revolution.” Doing so will help her daughter when she’s older, she said.

“She will already be talking on the phone, and she’ll already be having conversations with her friends, and if we can get more friends talking on the phone, then hopefully we can delay” the introduction of social media, she said.

Kids are also learning how to have proper phone conversations.

Santa brought Eliza Bianco’s three kids, ages 6, 8 and 10, a landline for Christmas. Since she taught them how to hold the phone up to their ears and talk, they’ve been having “adorable” conversations with their friends, said Bianco, a public relations executive based in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Her kids have also learned phone etiquette, she said. Bianco taught them to say, “Hello,” or “This is the Bianco residence,” when they answer the phone. When they place calls, they have to say who they are and whom they’d like to speak with when someone picks up.

“It’s not a FaceTime,” Bianco said. “The name doesn’t just pop up.”

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(CNN) — Marcee Gray, the mother of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, testified Monday at the murder trial of her estranged husband, Colin Gray, about how she lost custody of their three children, her struggles with addiction and their oldest son’s spiraling mental health.

After a stint in jail and rehab, Marcee Gray lived with Colin and the kids in July and August 2024 and noticed Colt Gray, then 14, was riddled with anxiety, easily agitated and had a panic attack.

“It was very obvious that he needed some professional help, especially with the anxiety,” she said.

The testimony offered insights into the tumultuous home life of Colt Gray, who, in September 2024, brought an AR15-style rifle to Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, and opened fire. Four people were killed and nine were injured, before he surrendered to police.

Prosecutors allege Colin Gray bought Colt the rifle despite previous warnings that his son was a danger to others, actions that constitute criminally reckless conduct. His defense attorney said in opening statements Colin Gray was unaware his son was planning the shooting and had taken steps to try to get him help.

He has pleaded not guilty to nearly 30 charges, including two counts each of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

Colin Gray’s trial is part of a broader push to hold more people accountable for a school shooting, including the shooter’s parents and responding law enforcement officers. This case bears close similarities to the trials of James and Jennifer Crumbley, whose then-15-year-old son killed four students in 2021 at his high school in Oxford, Michigan.

The trial began last week and has featured emotional testimony from students and teachers who survived the shooting, police interviews with Colin Gray, Colt Gray’s spotty school attendance records and photos showing unsecured firearms and ammo in Colin Gray’s home.

Marcee Gray’s testimony focused on some of the intimate details of what Colin Gray knew about their son and what he did about that knowledge. Defense attorneys are expected to cross-examine her about her past legal trouble and struggles with addiction.

Marcee’s mother – the shooter’s grandmother – testified on Friday, saying Colin Gray bought his son an AR15-style rifle as a Christmas gift nine months before the shooting and left the gun in Colt’s room, even though the father knew about his son’s mental health struggles.

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By Kara Alaimo, CNN

(CNN) — Something unusual and exciting has been happening in Alison Lundberg’s household lately: Her landline has been ringing.

There’s “an actual thrill that runs through our household when the phone rings,” said Lundberg, a San Diego-based communications executive.

Part of the reason is that her family has no idea who’s calling since they don’t have caller ID.

It had been decades since Lundberg had a landline. She got one recently to protect her 4-year-old daughter, Ava, she said.

Last summer, Ava’s preschool camp did a lesson on safety, teaching her to call 911 in an emergency.

At home, Lundberg reiterated for her daughter that she should call 911 if someone’s sick, there’s a fire or there’s another kind of an emergency.

“All of a sudden, I had this realization,” said Lundberg, whose family members only had mobile phones. “How would my 4-year-old actually do that?”

So, Lundberg got the landline about five months ago. Now when she travels for work, she doesn’t have to worry about what her daughter will do if something happens to her husband.

But it’s not the only reason Lundberg is happy about the situation. She is among many parents who say bringing back landlines is benefiting their kids, making the adults nostalgic and bringing them all joy.

Staving off social media and improving communication

These days, Ava mostly talks on the phone to her grandparents, who all live out of state. Doing so allows her to manage her relationship with them, so her parents don’t have to schedule calls. Lundberg will still listen in from the stairs sometimes, “because it’s pretty hilarious.”

Fostering these kinds of connections means “there’s some joy” in having a landline, Lundberg said.

It doesn’t work as well when your kids get older if their peers don’t have landlines, which is why Lundberg has convinced some mom friends to join what she calls her “revolution.” Doing so will help her daughter when she’s older, she said.

“She will already be talking on the phone, and she’ll already be having conversations with her friends, and if we can get more friends talking on the phone, then hopefully we can delay” the introduction of social media, she said.

Kids are also learning how to have proper phone conversations.

Santa brought Eliza Bianco’s three kids, ages 6, 8 and 10, a landline for Christmas. Since she taught them how to hold the phone up to their ears and talk, they’ve been having “adorable” conversations with their friends, said Bianco, a public relations executive based in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Her kids have also learned phone etiquette, she said. Bianco taught them to say, “Hello,” or “This is the Bianco residence,” when they answer the phone. When they place calls, they have to say who they are and whom they’d like to speak with when someone picks up.

“It’s not a FaceTime,” Bianco said. “The name doesn’t just pop up.”

By doing all these things, they are learning manners and how to speak formally, she said. And her kids love it.

“I haven’t forced this one bit,” she said.

Recently, one of Bianco’s sons got into minor mischief at school with the son of Marie McCabe, a pediatric neuropsychologist also based in Saratoga Springs.

Afterward, the two boys spoke on their landlines and decided to apologize to their class.

“I don’t think they would have gotten to that” without the landlines, McCabe said. It helped that they didn’t have the “distraction of having a screen in front of them,” she said. The landline “just removes that, and it has been facilitating … genuine communication” and social development.