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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 โ€œfight until the endโ€ after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuadorโ€™s oil operations was thrown out ofย court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
us/As Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen, Communities Wrestle With Paying the Costs
By Guest
on
By Karen Savage, Climate Docket. Originally published on Climate Docket. Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from Californiaโ€™s growing wildfires, ...
us/Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'
By Julie Dermansky
on
Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans,ย cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
uk/Workers Should be Focus of Post-COVID Climate Policy 'Reset', Unions Say
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophicย consequences. Meeting the UKโ€™s 2050 net-zero target requires a โ€œreset...
us/The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America
By Guest
on
Byย Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Losย Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
us/Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be โ€˜Catastrophic.โ€™ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases
By Dana Drugmand
on
More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
us/Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
By Justin Mikulka
on
With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
Sharon Lavigne speaking at the 2020 Juneteenth ceremony at the site of a former burial ground for enslaved African Americans on the site where Formosa plans to build a petrochemical complex. Credit: Julie Dermansky.
us/Following Lawsuit, Formosa Agrees to Hold Major Construction on One of Largest Planned US Plastics Plants Until 2021
By Julie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on
Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the โ€œSunshineย Project.โ€ Today, the co...
us/Disaster Recovery Expert Russel Honorรฉ Decries the Lack of Coordinated Response to COVID-19
By Julie Dermansky
on
Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...

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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 โ€œfight until the endโ€ after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuadorโ€™s oil operations was thrown out ofย court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
us/As Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen, Communities Wrestle With Paying the Costs
ByGuest
on

By Karen Savage, Climate Docket. Originally published on Climate Docket. Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from Californiaโ€™s growing wildfires, ...
us/Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans,ย cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
uk/Workers Should be Focus of Post-COVID Climate Policy 'Reset', Unions Say
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophicย consequences. Meeting the UKโ€™s 2050 net-zero target requires a โ€œreset...
us/The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America
ByGuest
on

Byย Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Losย Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
us/Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be โ€˜Catastrophic.โ€™ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases
ByDana Drugmand
on

More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
us/Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
on

With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
us/Following Lawsuit, Formosa Agrees to Hold Major Construction on One of Largest Planned US Plastics Plants Until 2021
ByJulie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on

Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the โ€œSunshineย Project.โ€ Today, the co...
Sharon Lavigne speaking at the 2020 Juneteenth ceremony at the site of a former burial ground for enslaved African Americans on the site where Formosa plans to build a petrochemical complex. Credit: Julie Dermansky.
us/Disaster Recovery Expert Russel Honorรฉ Decries the Lack of Coordinated Response to COVID-19
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
Series: Louisianaโ€™s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley