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Sprinklers water crops on a farm near Coachella, Calif. during a long-duration heat wave and drought on July 3, 2024. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

USDA’s Purge of Climate Data is Illegal and Reckless, Doing Immediate Harm to Farmers, Lawsuit Alleges  

By Miranda Lipton

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro attends a meeting of governors hosted by President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 21 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Trump Administration Restores $2.1 billion in Funding to Pennsylvania After State’s Lawsuit

By Jon Hurdle

Normally phosphogypsum is disposed of in stacks such as this one in Riverview, Fla. Credit: Sarah Gledhill/Center for Biological Diversity

Plan to Build a Road With Radioactive Waste in Florida Prompts Legal Challenge Against the EPA

By Amy Green

Demonstrators march to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota on Feb. 22, 2017. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

A Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Is Meant to Bankrupt It and Deter Public Protests, Environmental Groups Warn

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A Pennsylvania Department of the Environment crew fills in a sinkhole above an abandoned mine in Washington Township. Federal funding for remediating old mines has been frozen by the Trump administration, the state said in a lawsuit. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Pennsylvania Climate Programs Hit by Federal Spending Cuts, Governor Says in Lawsuit vs. Trump

By Jon Hurdle

A person walks down a flooded Main Street after two days of heavy rain in Montpelier, Vt. on July 11, 2023. Credit: Kylie Cooper/Getty Images

Vermont’s Climate Superfund Faces First Legal Challenge from Fossil Fuel Interests

By Olivia Gieger

A pedestrian walks across a flooded street in Honolulu on Dec. 7, 2021, the morning after a powerful tropical storm known as a Kona Low hit the Hawaii islands. Credit: Eugene Tanner/AFP via Getty Images

The Supreme Court Let Lawsuits Against Oil Companies Proceed. This Is What It Means

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

A view of the small Arctic town of Narsaq in southern Greenland, where Greenland Minerals arrived in 2007. Credit: Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How to Buy a Piece of a Lawsuit and Impoverish a Country

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Laurel Peltier and a fellow Gedco Cares volunteer discuss how to help a client who was struggling to pay her utility bills because of inflated charges. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Advocates, Legislators Are Confident Maryland Law to Rectify Retail Energy Market Will Survive Industry’s Legal Challenge 

By Aman Azhar

Outside a home in Arizona’s Pine-Strawberry community, a sign urges others to conserve water and that the water crisis in the district is real. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Customers Sue an Arizona Water District Amid Drought and Surging Demand

By Wyatt Myskow

Contractors and attorneys for Chevron watch from above as Hawk Dunlap, Daniel Charest and Sarah Stogner (from left) inspect an excavated well on April 10 at Antina Ranch in Crane County, Texas. Credit: Mitch Borden/Marfa Public Radio

A Legal Fight Over Legacy Oil Industry Pollution Heats Up in West Texas

By Martha Pskowski

In late April, the Chaco provincial legislature approved a law that allows the clearing of hundreds of thousands of acres of native forest. Credit: Periodistas por el Planeta/Abogados Ambientalistas

Fighting for the Native Forest of the Gran Chaco in Argentina

By Alexa Robles-Gil

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison settled with Walmart and Reynolds Consumer Products after a lawsuit he filed over some of their plastic bags. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Minnesota Settles ‘Deceptive Environmental Marketing’ Lawsuit Over ‘Recycling’ Plastic Bags

By James Bruggers

A pilot walks away from an American Airlines plane at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas. Credit: Cooper Neill/AFP via Getty Images

Employees Suing American Airlines Don’t Want Their 401(k)s in ESG Funds

By Mathilde Augustin

Neighbors look at a car crushed by a large tree in the wake of Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Baltimore Judge Tosses Climate Case, Hands Win to Big Oil

By Aman Azhar

The Denka Performance Elastomer plant sits behind the community of Reserve in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Following Cancer Alley Decision, States Pit Themselves Against Environmental Justice Efforts

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Nate King (aged 6) and Jeff King (aged 10), the youngest plaintiffs of the case, speak at a press conference held outside the Montana Supreme Court building in Helena on Wednesday. Credit: Najifa Farhat/Inside Climate News

Montana’s High Court Considers a Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Najifa Farhat

A man walks through a flooded street the morning after the remnants of Hurricane Ida drenched the New York City and New Jersey area on Sept. 2, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

New Jersey Joins Other States in Suing Fossil Fuel Industry, Claiming Links to Climate Change

By Jon Hurdle

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