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Report: Global Climate Lawsuits Against Governments and Polluters on the Rise
By Dana Drugmand
on
Climate litigation is not going away any time soon. Lawsuits demanding accountability and action on the existential threat of climate change continue to take hold across the world with some signif...
us/Louisiana Activists Charged with Felonies After Delivering Box of Formosa Plastic Pollution to Lobbyists
By Julie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
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Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...
Under Rising Pressure on Climate, JPMorgan Rejects Shareholder Calls to Disclose Full Carbon Footprint
By Alex Varley-Winter
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America’s largest bank is shunning calls from shareholders to disclose its full emissions, despite warnings from its own economists that “catastrophic” climate change could end up threatening human...
us/Bucking GOP Elders, Some Young Republicans Embrace a Slower, Gentler Brand of Climate Activism
By Guest
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By James Bruggers, InsideClimate News. This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening ...
Here’s How Shareholders Are Pressuring Oil Companies to Act on Climate Change
By Sophie Yeo
on
Oil companies are preparing for their upcoming annual general meetings (AGMs), an occasion where shareholders gather to scrutinise directors, vote on resolutions, and express their concerns about h...
uk/National Portrait Gallery Drops BP Judge After Prolonged Protest
By India Bourke
on
For the first time in over two decades the National Portrait Gallery has not included a representative from oil giant BP on the judging panel for its annual Portrait Award. The presence of BP as a...
us/Why Public Health Experts Support These Youth Suing the US Government Over Climate Change
By Dana Drugmand
on
Leading experts in the medical community, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like t...
uk/FairFuel UK: Industry-funded Campaign Group Seeks to Pressure Treasury into Fuel Duty U-turn
By Rich Collett-White
on
Rumours began swirling in February that the upcoming budget could bring the UK’s 10-year freeze on fuel duty to an end. Since then, an industry-funded pressure group has been furiously campaigning ...
uk/'Unfit for Purpose': Students Seek to Take Climate Education Into Their Own Hands
By Frances Rankin
on
Students are today taking their education into their own hands and launching a climate emergency education bill in parliament, to call for rapid education reform and with the hopes of gaining suppo...
uk/‘It’s a Huge Step Backwards’: Teenagers Hunger Striking to Stop the UK's Newest Coal Mine
By Phoebe Cooke
on
It’s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light it’s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...

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Report: Global Climate Lawsuits Against Governments and Polluters on the Rise
ByDana Drugmand
on

Climate litigation is not going away any time soon. Lawsuits demanding accountability and action on the existential threat of climate change continue to take hold across the world with some signif...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
us/Louisiana Activists Charged with Felonies After Delivering Box of Formosa Plastic Pollution to Lobbyists
ByJulie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on

Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
Under Rising Pressure on Climate, JPMorgan Rejects Shareholder Calls to Disclose Full Carbon Footprint
ByAlex Varley-Winter
on

America’s largest bank is shunning calls from shareholders to disclose its full emissions, despite warnings from its own economists that “catastrophic” climate change could end up threatening human...
us/Bucking GOP Elders, Some Young Republicans Embrace a Slower, Gentler Brand of Climate Activism
ByGuest
on

By James Bruggers, InsideClimate News. This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening ...
Here’s How Shareholders Are Pressuring Oil Companies to Act on Climate Change
BySophie Yeo
on

Oil companies are preparing for their upcoming annual general meetings (AGMs), an occasion where shareholders gather to scrutinise directors, vote on resolutions, and express their concerns about h...
uk/National Portrait Gallery Drops BP Judge After Prolonged Protest
ByIndia Bourke
on

For the first time in over two decades the National Portrait Gallery has not included a representative from oil giant BP on the judging panel for its annual Portrait Award. The presence of BP as a...
us/Why Public Health Experts Support These Youth Suing the US Government Over Climate Change
ByDana Drugmand
on

Leading experts in the medical community, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like t...
uk/FairFuel UK: Industry-funded Campaign Group Seeks to Pressure Treasury into Fuel Duty U-turn
ByRich Collett-White
on

Rumours began swirling in February that the upcoming budget could bring the UK’s 10-year freeze on fuel duty to an end. Since then, an industry-funded pressure group has been furiously campaigning ...
uk/'Unfit for Purpose': Students Seek to Take Climate Education Into Their Own Hands
ByFrances Rankin
on

Students are today taking their education into their own hands and launching a climate emergency education bill in parliament, to call for rapid education reform and with the hopes of gaining suppo...
uk/‘It’s a Huge Step Backwards’: Teenagers Hunger Striking to Stop the UK's Newest Coal Mine
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

It’s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light it’s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...

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