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Supreme Court weighs Big Oil climate liability case

Rank
Ran
45h
Updated
13h ago
Closed
Outlets
10
Regions
4
Countries
4
Languages
1

+0

The Independent United Kingdom · English 3 Oct, 11:48 UTC

The earliest of 10 English reports

The only language so far · English, 10 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 46 hours.

5 10
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Independent, 3 Oct, 11:48 UTC.
  2. Second country: Pakistan, with The Express Tribune.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Express Tribune.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 5 Oct, 09:00 UTC.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

70%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
  • Americas 7 outlets · 1 country · 70%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%

First movers

  1. The Independent 3 Oct, 11:48 UTC
  2. The Express Tribune +19h
  3. Los Angeles Times +22h 11m
  4. The Washington Post +22h 11m
  5. CBS News +23h 12m

Last to join

  1. ABC News 5 Oct, 09:22 UTC
  2. NPR 5 Oct, 09:00 UTC
  3. NBC News 5 Oct, 09:00 UTC
  4. New York Times 4 Oct, 14:56 UTC
  5. TimesLIVE 4 Oct, 14:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 4 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 1 public-service, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Pakistan. 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.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 3 Oct 2026, 11:48 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 09:22 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 Politics. 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
0.12, 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
Continued by US-Höchstgericht verhandelt, ob Klimaklage gegen Ölkonzerne zulässig ist; Supreme Court hears climate lawsuits against oil companies. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 155 3.69 7 4 6 3 4.1

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 3 Oct, 12:00 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 09:22 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa 4 Oct, 14:00 UTC
    Big Oil takes climate fight to US top court

Americas 7 outlets

  • ABC News United States 5 Oct, 09:22 UTC
    Killer beetles, tinderbox forests: Climate change costs center stage at Supreme Court
  • New York Times United States 5 Oct, 09:03 UTC
    Supreme Court to Hear Major Environmental Lawsuit
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    • A Supreme Court Battle Over Climate Change Begins 4 Oct, 14:56 UTC
  • NBC News United States 5 Oct, 09:00 UTC
    New Supreme Court term begins with a climate change case seeking to hold energy companies liable
  • NPR United States 5 Oct, 09:00 UTC
    Supreme Court's new term kicks off with blockbuster climate change case
  • CBS News United States 4 Oct, 11:00 UTC
    Supreme Court to weigh energy companies' bid to end climate-change suit
  • The Washington Post United States 4 Oct, 10:00 UTC
    Should Big Oil pay for climate change? A Supreme Court case will help decide.
  • Los Angeles Times United States 4 Oct, 10:00 UTC
    Supreme Court to weigh whether oil companies can be forced to pay for climate damage

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • The Express Tribune Pakistan 4 Oct, 06:48 UTC
    US Supreme Court to kick off term with bid by Big Oil to toss climate suits

Europe 1 outlet

  • The Independent United Kingdom 3 Oct, 11:48 UTC
    The Supreme Court will hear a major climate change case involving a devastating Colorado wildfire
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