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Supreme Court hears climate lawsuits against oil companies

Rank
Running: 9h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 12
Regions: 3
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 5 Oct, 13:34 UTC

The earliest of 11 English reports

Read it also in Español (1)

Read at The Guardian

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Guardian, 5 Oct, 13:34 UTC.
Second country: United States, with NBC News.
Second region: Americas, with NBC News.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 5 Oct, 17:23 UTC.
Now: 12 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

67%25%

Americas 8 outlets · 3 countries · 67%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
Europe 3 outlets · 1 country · 25%

First movers

The Guardian 5 Oct, 13:34 UTC
NBC News +44m
OilPrice.com +1h 25m
Bloomberg +2h 32m
Clarín +3h 6m

Latest arrivals

CTV News 5 Oct, 21:20 UTC
Fox News 5 Oct, 20:45 UTC
The Washington Post 5 Oct, 19:23 UTC
The Independent 5 Oct, 18:04 UTC
CBS News 5 Oct, 17:54 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Supreme Court weighs Big Oil climate liability case, 3 to 5 Oct 2026, 10 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 12 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 12 outlets, 1 state-owned, 11 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 3: Argentina, Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Singapore. Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article The Guardian, 5 Oct 2026, 13:34 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 13:50 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 3.91, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Supreme Court weighs Big Oil climate liability case. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 5 Oct, 13:50 UTC · Updated 21:20 UTC

Covered by 12 outlets

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Covered by 12 outlets

Americas 8 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 3 outlets