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us/How Congress Can Support Lawsuits Demanding Climate Accountability

onSep 25, 2020 @ 15:16 PDT

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

onSep 18, 2020 @ 12:55 PDT

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

onSep 18, 2020 @ 04:53 PDT

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

onSep 11, 2020 @ 13:23 PDT

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

onSep 10, 2020 @ 07:49 PDT

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

onSep 9, 2020 @ 05:02 PDT

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

onSep 3, 2020 @ 16:23 PDT

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

onSep 3, 2020 @ 02:21 PDT

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

onSep 2, 2020 @ 11:54 PDT

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

onAug 12, 2020 @ 05:48 PDT

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

onSep 25, 2020 @ 15:16 PDT

Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability

Series: Climate Change Lawsuits