Blockbuster legal fights over climate policy are on the horizon this year as the Trump administration and business interests ...
Americans are increasingly turning to courts to hold big oil accountable. Here are major trends that emerged last year ...
Climate litigation moved from the courtroom to real-world impact in 2025. Across continents, judges blocked polluting ...
Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans ...
Advocates seeking to hold major oil and gas companies liable for climate change damages will continue to up the pace of ...
In my previous writing on Sunoco v. Honolulu, I warned about the dangers of state courts overstepping their bounds in climate change litigation, threatening the delicate balance of federalism. Today, ...
“It’s an earthquake,” one law professor said. “We just don’t know where on the Richter scale it lands.” In his first term, Donald Trump took a legal ax to former President Barack Obama’s climate and ...
The city brought claims under the CPL (N.Y.C. Admin. Code §20-700, et seq.) alleging that defendants misled consumers about the environmental impact of their fossil fuel products and overstated their ...
The climate litigation game is simple: attribute any and all damage even remotely plausible to “climate change” and then sue the fossil energy producers for purportedly causing that damage while ...
In recent years climate claims against states and corporates have continued to rise in number. Historically these actions were typically brought by activist groups against public bodies but recent ...