Member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) said in a non-binding advisory ...

Dozens of federal actions dealing with everything from energy efficiency standards to funding for transit projects have been upended by a recent court ruling against the Biden administration’… ...

Gutting the National Climate Assessment is just one way the Trump administration is undermining the legal justification to ...

With the president’s most potent tools to fight climate change stripped by Congress and the courts, the administration will now have to rely on smaller, less powerful actions. By Coral Davenport ...

"You’re asking us to do a lot of new stuff, aren’t you?" Judge Andrew D. Hurwitz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Juliana v. United States, June 4, 2019. It has been a ...

President Joe Biden has pledged sweeping action on climate change but struggled to deliver it. A legal scholar explains why a national emergency declaration should be a last resort.

An April 2022 survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication finds 28 % of U.S. citizens ... antiwar and anti-nuclear actions. But as the conservative legal movement began its half ...

Such obligations may arise under existing international legal instruments, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“UNFCCC”), the Paris Agreement (as well as other ...

Kenneth Markowitz, Alex Harrison and Chris Treanor of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP discuss points of progress at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's 27th Conference ...

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management released a climate action plan in March 2024 with the help of a $3 million ...

In recent years, climate litigation has seen a remarkable surge, with thousands of cases being filed across the globe. This trend indicates a growing demand for accountability from governments and ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – New court actions upholding climate stability as a protected right are needed to break the climate change impasse, an Oregon State University economist concludes in a ...