Climate change lawsuits more than double in 5 years, UN report finds
The increasing number of climate change cases indicates that climate-related lawsuits are becoming an essential component of ensuring climate justice.
Investors want companies to disclose environmental risk
“Consistent and comparable data is key in our company analysis and in particular in the climate risk and opportunity analysis.”
Youth activists holding coordinated press conferences to raise awareness on landmark court case
The next hearing on the case will be Tuesday, June 4, at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Biden vows to ax Keystone XL if elected
His announcement Monday was met with enthusiasm by pipeline opponents.
Turning away from fossil fuels: Lessons from the anti-apartheid movement
The rhetorical battle over turning away from investments in companies contributing to climate change, it seems, has been won.
Environmental and tribal groups urge extra precautions to protect the Great Lakes from oil...
"The annual and growing threat is not worth risking the Great Lakes, nor your reputation as a leader who takes the protection of our public trust resources seriously."
California votes to protect mountain lions under the state Endangered Species Act
The vote secured the Southern California and Central Coast mountain lions as a distinct population segment (DPS) and listed both populations as threatened under CESA because of their vulnerability to these threats and becoming locally extinct.
A sea of pollution: New widespread contamination in oceans amid coronavirus pandemic
“If only one percent of the masks were to be disposed of incorrectly and dispersed in nature, this would result in up to 10 million masks per month polluting the environment.”
Trump administration says it isn’t anti-science as it seeks to slash EPA science office
The Office of Research and Development has been at the front line of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.
Fossil fuel firms accelerating climate catastrophe despite urgent warnings
More than 1,000 oil and gas companies worldwide are actively plotting to enlarge their fossil fuel operations.