Climate Law & Liability
EPA Formally Denies Alabama’s Plan for Coal Ash Waste
By Lee Hedgepeth
‘Historic’ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Says Countries Must Prevent Greenhouse Gases From Harming Oceans
By Katie Surma
Significant Environmental and Climate Impacts Are Impinging on Human Rights in Every Country, a New Report Finds
By Katie Surma
How the Drug War and Energy Transition Are Changing Ecuadorians’ Fight For The Rights of Nature
By Katie Surma
Alabama Coal Company Sued for a Home Explosion That Killed a Man Is Delinquent on Dozens of Penalties, Records Show
By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers
Maya van Rossum Wants to Save the World
By Kiley Bense
How Alabama Turned to Restrictive Deed Covenants to Ward Off Flooding Claims From Black Residents
By Lee Hedgepeth
In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts
By Victoria St. Martin
How Shadowy Corporations, Secret Deals and False Promises Keep Retired Coal Plants From Being Redeveloped
By Daniel Propp
Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay
By Liza Gross
Appeals Court Ordered the Dismissal of a Landmark Youth Climate Court Case
By Kiley Price
Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up
By Liza Gross
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago
By Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer
Headed Toward the Finish Line, Plastics Treaty Delegates ‘Work is Far From Over’
By James Bruggers
Florida Says No to Federal Funding Aimed at Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Amy Green
A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor
By Kiley Bense