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us/How Congress Can Support Lawsuits Demanding Climate Accountability
By Dana Drugmand
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On Wednesday, September 23, several members of Congress introduced a resolution in both houses that supports the principles and demands of the 21 youth suing the U.S. government in the landmark con...
us/Court Considers If Washington State, Smothered by 'Climate Fires' and Smoke, Is Violating Youths’ Rights to Life and Liberty
By Dana Drugmand
on
As rampant wildfires worsened by climate change continued to batter the western U.S. this week, a Washington state appeals court examined the question of whether young people should be allowed to s...
uk/HSBC and JPMorgan Chase’s Role in Climate Crisis Makes Them Unworthy Award Winners, Campaigners Say
By Phoebe Cooke
on
A top banking prize awarded to “the world’s worst financier of climate chaos” has prompted major backlash from campaigners. More than 20 international environmental groups are demanding a retracti...
Australian Teens Bring Class Action Climate Lawsuit to Stop Coal Mine Expansion
By Dana Drugmand
on
This week, a group of eight Australian teens has brought a groundbreaking new climate change lawsuit against Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment in an effort to stop a proposed coal mi...
uk/Climate Assembly Calls for Aviation Tax and Faster Ban on Sale of New Diesel and Petrol Cars
By Phoebe Cooke
on
The UK’s first ever Climate Assembly has called for an end to cross-party fighting as it presented its vision for a “net zero” future in a new report. More than 100 participants from a cross-secti...
uk/Campaigners Celebrate Government Rejection of Druridge Bay Coal Mine
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Campaigners are celebrating a “massive victory” after plans to extract nearly three million tonnes of coal from Northumberland’s Druridge Bay were rejected once again. Last night, Communities Secr...
Latest Youth Climate Lawsuit Filed Against 33 European Countries Over Human Rights
By Dana Drugmand
on
Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate cris...
uk/Indigenous Campaigners Vow to 'Fight to the End' After Court Throws Out Amazon Oil Spill Case
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Indigenous campaigners have vowed to “fight until the end” after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuador’s oil operations was thrown out of court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
uk/Zadie Smith Joins Protest Against ‘Right-wing Climate Sceptic Thinktanks’
By Rich Collett-White
on
Prominent writers and actors gathered outside the offices at 55 Tufton Street on Wednesday evening to highlight the role they say organisations based in and around the Westminster address play in s...
Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today.  The Kichwa and Shuar tribes ...

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us/How Congress Can Support Lawsuits Demanding Climate Accountability
ByDana Drugmand
on

On Wednesday, September 23, several members of Congress introduced a resolution in both houses that supports the principles and demands of the 21 youth suing the U.S. government in the landmark con...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
us/Court Considers If Washington State, Smothered by 'Climate Fires' and Smoke, Is Violating Youths’ Rights to Life and Liberty
ByDana Drugmand
on

As rampant wildfires worsened by climate change continued to batter the western U.S. this week, a Washington state appeals court examined the question of whether young people should be allowed to s...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
uk/HSBC and JPMorgan Chase’s Role in Climate Crisis Makes Them Unworthy Award Winners, Campaigners Say
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

A top banking prize awarded to “the world’s worst financier of climate chaos” has prompted major backlash from campaigners. More than 20 international environmental groups are demanding a retracti...
Australian Teens Bring Class Action Climate Lawsuit to Stop Coal Mine Expansion
ByDana Drugmand
on

This week, a group of eight Australian teens has brought a groundbreaking new climate change lawsuit against Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment in an effort to stop a proposed coal mi...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
uk/Climate Assembly Calls for Aviation Tax and Faster Ban on Sale of New Diesel and Petrol Cars
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

The UK’s first ever Climate Assembly has called for an end to cross-party fighting as it presented its vision for a “net zero” future in a new report. More than 100 participants from a cross-secti...
uk/Campaigners Celebrate Government Rejection of Druridge Bay Coal Mine
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Campaigners are celebrating a “massive victory” after plans to extract nearly three million tonnes of coal from Northumberland’s Druridge Bay were rejected once again. Last night, Communities Secr...
Latest Youth Climate Lawsuit Filed Against 33 European Countries Over Human Rights
ByDana Drugmand
on

Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate cris...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
uk/Indigenous Campaigners Vow to 'Fight to the End' After Court Throws Out Amazon Oil Spill Case
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Indigenous campaigners have vowed to “fight until the end” after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuador’s oil operations was thrown out of court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
uk/Zadie Smith Joins Protest Against ‘Right-wing Climate Sceptic Thinktanks’
ByRich Collett-White
on

Prominent writers and actors gathered outside the offices at 55 Tufton Street on Wednesday evening to highlight the role they say organisations based in and around the Westminster address play in s...
Series: Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change
Series: Extinction Rebellion Activism
Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today.  The Kichwa and Shuar tribes ...

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