Global State of Climate-Change Litigation Over 2,000 climate-change-related lawsuits have been commenced globally since the mid-1980s, with the vast majority of this litigation occurring in the U.S.

The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion says countries could be in violation of international law if ...

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed this week to withdraw its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases “endanger public ...

Federal agencies have recently issued a barrage of restrictions that could halt construction of solar and wind farms on ...

The ICJ ruling is blunt: the multilateral climate change and environmental agreements and treaties that countries–including ...

What the Inter-American Court’s recent advisory opinion tells us about the past, present, and future of climate change policy ...

The International Court of Justice, the top United Nations court, decided Wednesday that countries would be violating ...

A scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for much of the government's actions to fight climate change might be ...

The United Nations’s top court announced Wednesday that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, they could be in violation of international law. The ...

We need radical solutions reinforced by legal statutes to bolster the fight against climate change and make polluters pay.

Judges with the United Nations's top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right. The International Court of Justice is delivering an ...

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 ...