Justices have once again denied an oil major climate challenge, ruling to sit out on Honolulu’s climate dispute and further clearing the path for climate tort cases on the verge of trial.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Sunoco and other oil companies to scuttle a lawsuit by Honolulu accusing them of misleading the public for decades about the dangers of climate change induced by the burning of fossil fuels.