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An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europeโ€™s highest court, it was announcedย today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which a...
Environmentalists are calling on the government to reassess its support for a large expansion of waste incinerators in the coming decade and bring in a law that would require the waste sector to de...
Climate activists have plasteredย more than 250 billboards, bus stops and tubes with parody HSBC adverts to highlight the bankโ€™s โ€œclimateย colonialismโ€. The spoof adverts were created by 15 artists ...
Environmental and community groups in Louisiana are elated after what they see as two back-to-back wins in their fight to protect fenceline communities from additional petrochemical industry pollut...
The Federal Court of Canada has decided to dismiss a climate lawsuit based on constitutional rights and brought by 15 young Canadians against the federal government. The decision, issued October 27...
Campaigners are calling on the Kenyan government to protect the country from an influx of plastic pollution as a consequence of a new free trade agreement with the US. An online petition, organise...
Earlier this year a pair of judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to dismiss the groundbreaking American youth climate change lawsuit Juliana v. United States. But the case is not ye...
By Karen Savage, The Climate Docket. Originally published on The Climate Docket. Amid a summer rife with climate-related disasters, the liability lawsuits came like an advancing flood, first Minne...
On Wednesday, September 23, several members of Congress introduced a resolutionย in both houses thatย supportsย the principles and demands of the 21 youth suing the U.S. government in the landmark con...
As rampant wildfires worsened by climate change continuedย to batter the western U.S. this week, a Washington state appeals courtย examined the question of whether young people should be allowed to s...

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onNov 29, 2020 @ 03:58 PST

An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europeโ€™s highest court, it was announcedย today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which a...
onNov 17, 2020 @ 06:47 PST

Environmentalists are calling on the government to reassess its support for a large expansion of waste incinerators in the coming decade and bring in a law that would require the waste sector to de...
onNov 6, 2020 @ 10:28 PST

Climate activists have plasteredย more than 250 billboards, bus stops and tubes with parody HSBC adverts to highlight the bankโ€™s โ€œclimateย colonialismโ€. The spoof adverts were created by 15 artists ...
onNov 5, 2020 @ 16:06 PST

Environmental and community groups in Louisiana are elated after what they see as two back-to-back wins in their fight to protect fenceline communities from additional petrochemical industry pollut...
onOct 30, 2020 @ 13:17 PDT

The Federal Court of Canada has decided to dismiss a climate lawsuit based on constitutional rights and brought by 15 young Canadians against the federal government. The decision, issued October 27...
onOct 27, 2020 @ 03:57 PDT

Campaigners are calling on the Kenyan government to protect the country from an influx of plastic pollution as a consequence of a new free trade agreement with the US. An online petition, organise...
onSep 29, 2020 @ 16:11 PDT

Earlier this year a pair of judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to dismiss the groundbreaking American youth climate change lawsuit Juliana v. United States. But the case is not ye...
onSep 28, 2020 @ 11:51 PDT

By Karen Savage, The Climate Docket. Originally published on The Climate Docket. Amid a summer rife with climate-related disasters, the liability lawsuits came like an advancing flood, first Minne...
onSep 25, 2020 @ 15:16 PDT

On Wednesday, September 23, several members of Congress introduced a resolutionย in both houses thatย supportsย the principles and demands of the 21 youth suing the U.S. government in the landmark con...
onSep 18, 2020 @ 12:55 PDT

As rampant wildfires worsened by climate change continuedย to batter the western U.S. this week, a Washington state appeals courtย examined the question of whether young people should be allowed to s...