Climate Law & Liability
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
The Essential Advocate, Philippe Sands Makes the Case for a New International Crime Called Ecocide
By Katie Surma
The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault
By Georgina Gustin
A Plea to Make Widespread Environmental Damage an International Crime Takes Center Stage at The Hague
By Katie Surma
‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth
By Marianne Lavelle
More Young People Don’t Want Children Because of Climate Change. Has the UN Failed to Protect Them?
By Elena Shao
To Stop Line 3 Across Minnesota, an Indigenous Tribe Is Asserting the Legal Rights of Wild Rice
By Katie Surma
Is it Time for the World Court to Weigh in on Climate Change?
By Katie Surma
