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Building seawalls like the one in Santa Barbara, Calif., to protect against climate change will cost hundreds of billionsBuilding seawalls, like the one in Santa Barbara, Calif., to protect U.S. coastal communities from even moderate sea level rise will cost hundreds of billions, a new study shows. Photo credit: George Rose/Getty Images Featured

Study Estimates Seawalls to Protect U.S. Coast Will Cost $400 Billion

June 20, 2019 1

By Kaitlin Sullivan If the oceans continue to rise at the pace they have over the past two decades, sea level will rise by more…

A California oil refinery wraps itself in the U.S. flagMuch of the U.S. fossil fuel industry was behind an effort to muddy climate science to prevent international agreements to lower emissions. Photo credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Featured

Inside the GCC: The Industry Group That Mobilized to Fight Global Climate Action

April 25, 2019 7

By Karen Savage It was a sweltering hot day in June 1988 when NASA climate scientist James Hansen stunned the world, testifying before the U.S.…

The Global Climate Coalition targeted the processes of the UN's International Governmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe Global Climate Coalition worked to influence the work of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with aggressive tactics to muddy the overwhelming science that showed fossil fuel burning was warming the planet. Photo credit: Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images Featured

Global Climate Coalition: Fighting Global Climate Action in Favor of Fossil Fuels’ Survival

April 25, 2019 8

By Karen Savage At a small round table in a darkened room at one of Washington D.C.’s posher restaurants, Nicky Sundt listened intently. Two men…

The Global Climate Coalition used a secretive campaign to discredit United Nations climate negotiationsA newly released trove of documents show how the Global Climate Coalition worked against international climate action from the inside of the UN process. Featured

Global Climate Coalition: Documents Show How a Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate Negotiations

April 25, 2019 8

By Karen Savage and Mat Hope This is a collaboration of reporting by Climate Liability News and Desmog UK A fossil fuel–backed industry group was…

The National Association of Manufacturers has put itself in the lead defending the oil industry from climate suitsThe National Association of Manufacturers has taken a lead role in battling climate suits against the oil industry, similar to its defense of tobacco companies in their liability battle. Photo credit: Getty Images Featured

Battling for Big Oil: Manufacturing Trade Group Leads Assault on Climate Suits

February 26, 2019 10

By Karen Savage In its fight to stave off a wave of climate change-related lawsuits, the fossil fuel industry has found a vocal and unapologetic…

Electric utilities have known for decades about climate change yet pushed for more coal powerElectric utility companies, like oil companies, have long known of the dangers of climate change, but pushed for more coal use anyway, a report says. Photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Featured

Utilities Knew: Report Shows Power Industry Studied Climate Change, Stuck With Coal

January 16, 2019 1

By Kaitlin Sullivan A report documenting that electric utility companies, like the oil industry, understood climate change as far back as the 1960s could potentially…

The United Nations could recognize a safe climate and environment as a human rightThe United Nations should consider a right to a healthy environment, the special rapporteur on human rights argues. Photo credit: John Moore/Getty Images International

UN Urged to Recognize Healthy Climate As a Human Right

October 26, 2018 6

By Ucilia Wang David Boyd stood in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Thursday as the new special rapporteur…

Valve turners Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein threaten to shut down Enbridge Line 67 in October 2016 and are using the necessity defense in their case.Valve turners Annette Klapstein, left, and Emily Johnston won the right to use the necessity defense in their trial for threatening an Enbridge oil pipeline. Photo credit: shutitdown.today Featured

Trial Will Test New Weapon Against Climate Change: Necessity Defense

September 25, 2018 9

By Seamus McGraw No one—least of all the defendants—disputes the facts of the case against four people known as valve-turners: activists who trespassed on private…

The people of Isle de Jean Charles, La., are among the country's first displaced by climate changeThe people of Isle de Jean Charles, La., are among the first in the U.S. displaced by climate change. Photo credit: Karen Savage Featured

The Perils of Climate Migration: a Cautionary Tale from Louisiana

March 21, 2018 0

By Karen Savage Once a sprawling island, Isle de Jean Charles today is a mere sliver of what it used to be, more than 98…

Sections of Brooklyn were inundated by superstorm Sandy in 2012Places like the Rockaways and Coney Island were devastated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and worry adaptation plans will not happen in time to protect against the next major storm. Photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Featured

In NYC, Climate Adaptation (and Liability Suit) in a Race Against Time

February 22, 2018 0

By Karen Savage When New York City announced its lawsuit against five major oil companies to hold them accountable for the impacts of climate change,…

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