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Courts’ Fight Over ‘Cop City’ Protests Raises Questions About Terrorism Laws and Environmental Activism 

A years-long legal fight tied to protests over Atlanta’s Public Safety Training Center could shape how states wield terrorism laws against environmental protest movements.

By Jade Yeban

 Environmental activists reoccupy the Atlanta Forest as it was scheduled to be developed into a police training center on March 4, 2023. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Climate activists and members of Extinction Rebellion protest in front of Citibank’s New York City office on Sept. 5, 2024. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
For 33 hours, Elissa Phillips and Anahita Sahar Babaei locked themselves into the crow’s nests of a whaling ship, as dozens of supporters gathered to protest whaling in Iceland on Sept. 4, 2023. Credit: Hard to Port

Peaceful Protest Against Whaling in Iceland Lands Two Activists in Court

By Teresa Tomassoni
Thousands of activists take to the streets of New York City for the “March to End Fossil Fuels” on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements

By Ryan Krugman
Manning Rollerson speaks in front of a crowd of demonstrators outside Chubb Insurance’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters in New York City. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

A Week of Gulf South Solidarity in New York City

By Ryan Krugman
Reb Spring (left), the spokesperson for Debt for Climate, joins activists from Planet Over Profit to protest outside Wells Fargo’s corporate offices in New York City on July 23. Credit: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

Activists Target Wells Fargo for Dropping its Climate Commitments

By Ryan Krugman
Faculty, students and staff at UC Berkeley attend a rally to defend higher education and academic freedom on Wednesday. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

UC Berkeley Faculty Organize Rally to Protest Trump’s Attacks on Academic Freedom

By Liza Gross
Demonstrators participate in the Stand Up for Science rally at the Lincoln Memorial on March 7 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda

By Liza Gross, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg
Emma Ireland and Charles Philip Laurie from Just Stop Oil pose with their supporters outside of the Royal Courts of Justice in London before their hearing on Oct. 22. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Shell Wins Injunctions Against UK Gas Station Protesters Amid Growing Threats to Activism

By Keerti Gopal
U.S. Capitol Police arrest a climate activist during a protest on Capitol Hill in 2021. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

A Second Trump Presidency Could Threaten Already Shrinking Freedoms for Protest and Dissent

By Keerti Gopal
Since June, the Summer of Heat has organized more than 18 protests against Wall Street for its role in fueling climate change. In recent weeks, law enforcement has responded to some activists with more serious charges. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

An Activist Will Defy a Restraining Order to Play a Cello Protest at Citibank’s NYC Headquarters Thursday

By Keerti Gopal

A Group of Women Took Switzerland to Court Over Climate Inaction—and Won

By Kiley Price
Coils of rope are seen in the parking lot as lobstermen head out to sea in Vinalhaven, Maine. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

A Beached Whale Has Reignited the Fight Between Conservationists and Maine’s Lobster Industry

By Kiley Price
After they were removed from the building, Sunrise Movement members continued to demonstrate outside President Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del. on Feb. 12. Credit: Adah Crandall

‘Lead or Lose!’ Young People Arrested at Biden’s Campaign Headquarters Call for Climate Action and a Ceasefire

By Keerti Gopal

Protesting at UN Climate Talks Is Becoming Increasingly Difficult, Activists Say

By Kristoffer Tigue
Three members of security and law enforcement tackle Teddy Ogborn last week at the Jackson Lake Lodge, where the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium was being held in Jackson Hole Wyoming. Credit: Climate Defiance

Activists Crash Powerful Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole as Climate Protests and Responses to Them Escalate

By Keerti Gopal
Police officers saw the PVC pipe off Sophie Shepherd's arm that connected her with other demonstrators blocking access to the East Hampton Town Airport. Shepherd is an organizer with Planet Over Profit who said she was a "rule follower" before she started risking arrest in climate demonstrations. Credit: Keerti Gopal

New York Activists Descend on the Hamptons to Protest the Super Rich Fueling the Climate Crisis

By Keerti Gopal
A police officer removes a demonstrator during a march by climate activists of the "Letzte Generation" (Last Generation) group as they walk down Karl-Marx-Allee boulevard on their way to the Chancellery in Berlin on May 31, 2023. Credit: John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images

Disruptive Climate Protests Spur Police Raids in Germany and the US

By Kristoffer Tigue
A local brass band leads environmental protesters as they approach the EPA’s office on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Emma Ricketts

Environmental Advocates Protest Outside EPA Headquarters Over the Slow Pace of New Climate and Clean Air Regulations

By Phil McKenna, Emma Ricketts

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