Climate Law & Liability
A Pipeline Giant Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Environmental Crimes in Pennsylvania After Homeowners Complained of Tainted Water
By Jon Hurdle
A Teenage Floridian Has Spent Half His Life Involved in Climate Litigation. He’s Not Giving Up
By Amy Green
The International Criminal Court Turns 20 in Turbulent Times. Should ‘Ecocide’ Be Added to its List of Crimes?
By Katie Surma
Two Lakes, Two Streams and a Marsh Filed a Lawsuit in Florida to Stop a Developer From Filling in Wetlands. A Judge Just Threw it Out of Court
By Katie Surma
Baltimore’s ‘Catastrophic Failures’ at Wastewater Treatment Have Triggered a State Takeover, a Federal Lawsuit and Citizen Outrage
By Aman Azhar
Fifty Years After the UN’s Stockholm Environment Conference, Leaders Struggle to Realize its Vision of ‘a Healthy Planet’
By Katie Surma
In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It
By Katie Surma
California Attorney General Investigates the Oil and Gas Industry’s Role in Plastic Pollution, Subpoenas Exxon
By James Bruggers
Environmentalists in Chile Are Hoping to Replace the Country’s Pinochet-Era Legal Framework With an ‘Ecological Constitution’
By Katie Surma
Republicans Seize the ‘Major Questions Doctrine’ to Block Biden’s Climate Agenda
By Marianne Lavelle
Panama Enacts a Rights of Nature Law, Guaranteeing the Natural World’s ‘Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate’
By Katie Surma
Can Rights of Nature Laws Make a Difference? In Ecuador, They Already Are
By Katie Surma
New Mexico Could Be the Fourth State to Add a Green Amendment to Its Constitution, But Time Is Short
By Aydali Campa
In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River
By Katie Surma
In San Francisco’s Most Polluted Neighborhood, the Polluters Operate Without Proper Permits, Reports Say
By Elena Shao
