Communities like Pacifica, Calif., are struggling with climate costs, including coastal erosion, increased drought, wildfires and extreme weather. Photo credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images By Dana Drugmand A group of mayors will propose a resolution that seeks to protect cities from shouldering the burden of climate adaptation costs at…
The New York attorney general's office, led currently by Letitia James, did not engage in prosecutorial misconduct in investigating Exxon for climate fraud, a judge ruled Wednesday. Photo credit: Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images By Karen Savage A judge dismissed several claims by Exxon to stop New York State’s lawsuit against the oil giant for alleged climate fraud, including…
Baltimore, beset by climate impacts such as extreme rainfall events, had its climate liability suit sent to state court by a federal judge. Photo credit: Jonathan Newton/Washington Post via Getty Images By Karen Savage A federal court judge ruled on Tuesday that Baltimore’s climate liability suit against more than two dozen fossil fuel companies belongs in…
Demonstrators in Burnaby, British Columbia, protest the expansion of the government-owned Trans Mountain Pipeline. Photo credit: Jason Redmond/Getty Images By Karen Savage A group of young people who have organized strikes across Canada to protest a lack of action on climate change are demanding…
Romania shows no sign of curtailing its coal industry despite its promises to cut carbon emissions, so two groups filed a legal challenge against a particularly dirty power plant. Photo credit: Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images By Isabella Kaminski Environmental authorities in Romania have been accused of failing to consider the climate impacts of one of the country’s oldest and most…
With wildfire smoke bringing a serious health hazard to Canadian cities like Vancouver, a group of young people is suing the government for stronger action on climate change. Photo credit: Don MacKinnon/AFP/Getty Images By Karen Savage Attorneys representing young Canadians suing the government for insufficient action on climate change told the Superior Court of Quebec on Thursday that…
Activists hope to stop the sale of fossil fuel leases in New Mexico's Greater Carlsbad region. Photo credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images By Dana Drugmand Following a federal court ruling that invalidated government oil and gas leasing in Wyoming on climate change grounds in March, a new…
Italian climate activists plan a lawsuit to force the government to adopt stronger emissions reduction plans. Photo credit: Simona Granati-Corbis/Getty Images By Kaitlin Sullivan A coalition of nearly 50 Italian organizations announced it intends to sue the Italian government over what they allege is inadequate climate…
FERC, the agency that approves fossil fuel infrastructure, cannot ignore its mandate to assess the climate impacts of certain gas projects like pipelines and compressors, court says. Photo credit: Mark Dixon via Flickr By Karen Savage The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a little-known agency that oversees energy infrastructure, receives far less attention when it comes to climate change…
The 21 young people suing the U.S. government for exacerbating climate change hope the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sends their case to trial. By Karen Savage A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the courts’ role in dealing with climate…