The UN’s top court will deliver a landmark advisory opinion setting out countries’ legal obligations to address climate ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The directive is intended to embed the cost of climate change into all federal agencies. But it is not legally binding and could come with legal and logistical challenges.

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 ...