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Trump’s Nominee for EPA’s Top Lawyer Advances Despite Scant Legal Qualifications

Sean Donahue’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel advanced on a party-line vote despite Donahue lacking basic legal experience like taking a deposition or drafting a pleading.

By Katie Surma

 Sean Donahue, nominee to lead the EPA’s Office of General Counsel, speaks to a Senate committee during his confirmation hearing on March 26. Credit: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
A group of Adélie penguins hop around on a beach of Paulet Island on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

What Are the Rights of Nature?

By Katie Surma
The Supreme Court is seen on June 26 in Washington. Credit: Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images

Supreme Court Overturns Chevron Doctrine: What it Means for Climate Change Policy

By Marianne Lavelle
Haida hereditary chief Gidansda (Guujaaw) leads a group of paddlers aboard Luu Taas (“Wave Eater”), a 15-meter red-cedar canoe designed by acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid for the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Carving and paddling cedar canoes is one example of how Haida people are inextricably linked to both land and sea. Credit: Courtesy of Guujaaw

In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back

By Serena Renner, Hakai Magazine
A view of the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery in Wilmington, Calif. According to the Carbon Majors database, 72 percent of global fossil fuel and cement emissions can be traced to 122 producers. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Should Big Oil Be Tried for Homicide?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody speaks with the media after oral arguments were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether the controversial Florida and Texas social media laws can stand on Feb. 26 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Supreme Court’s Social Media Case Has Big Implications for Climate Disinformation, Experts Warn

By Kristoffer Tigue
State park visitors walk along a section of the Great Salt Lake that used to be underwater on Aug. 2, 2021 near Magna, Utah. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Utah Legislature Takes Aim at Rights of Nature Movement

By Katie Surma
A view of the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 4. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Supreme Court Weighs Overturning a Pillar of Federal Regulatory Law

By Marianne Lavelle
Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on March 22, 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma
Environmental activists from the Irish Wildlife Trust and Extinction Rebellion called on the Irish Government to introduce legislation in the form of a Biodiversity Act at a protest outside the National Biodiversity Conference in Dublin Castle on June 8, 2022. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

By Katie Surma
Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears (via pre recorded video) before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 23, 2022 for a hearing in the first ever court case involving the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Conta lived the first six or seven years of her life in voluntary isolation with her Tageri family. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Spanning Two Worlds, Judith Kimerling Explores Ecuador’s Rainforest and the Rule of Law That Might Save Those Who Live There

By Katie Surma
Judith Kimerling kneeling on pipelines above a drilling waste pit in the Ecuadorian Amazon in July 1990. Credit: Courtesy of Judith Kimerling

Judith Kimerling’s 1991 ‘Amazon Crude’ Exposed the Devastation of Oil Exploration in Ecuador. If Only She Could Make it Stop

By Katie Surma
Steven Donziger is seen at a "Free Donziger" rally held in front of the Manhattan Court House as he faces sentencing in contempt case in New York City on Oct. 1, 2021. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Their Lives Were Ruined by Oil Pollution, and a Court Awarded Them $9.5 Billion. But Ecuadorians Have Yet to See a Penny From Chevron

By Katie Surma
Lee's Ferry, pictured here, serves as the point where negotiators of the Colorado River Compact divided the river into two basins. Credit: Luke Runyon

The Colorado River Compact Turns 100 Years Old. Is It Still Working?

By Luke Runyon, KUNC
Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline on the construction site on the White Earth Nation Reservation near Wauburn, Minnesota in June 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

To Stop Line 3 Across Minnesota, an Indigenous Tribe Is Asserting the Legal Rights of Wild Rice

By Katie Surma
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is seen in San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

With 10 Appointees on the Ninth Circuit, Trump Seeks to Tame His Nemesis

By David Hasemyer
The Department of Interior climate website

Could FOIA Force Trump Administration to Restore Missing Climate Data?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A Warning to Clean Energy Companies Eyeing China's Markets

By Ann Danylkiw

Obama's Treaty-Making Powers Broader Than Recognized

By David Sassoon

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