GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A federal judge has dismissed Michigan’s antitrust lawsuit accusing four oil companies and an industry trade group of working together to stifle competition from renewable energy.

U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering dismissed the case Tuesday, handing a loss to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.

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The lawsuit, filed in January, named BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute, an oil and gas trade association. Michigan alleged they worked to delay competition from electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies.

Beckering ruled that most of the harms Michigan cited were not covered by antitrust law. Although higher energy prices could qualify, she found the alleged connection between the defendants’ actions and those prices too indirect for the case to proceed.

Courts have dismissed other climate lawsuits in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico and South Carolina. Those cases did not necessarily make the same antitrust claims.

A spokesperson for Nessel said she disagrees with the ruling and is considering the state’s options.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which filed a statement of interest in Michigan’s antitrust case, praised the dismissal. It called the case “another aggressively anti-energy lawsuit.”