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Australia Is Fueling Climate Crisis And Violating Human Rights, Environmental Law Groups Tell UN Human Rights Council

Australia Is Fueling Climate Crisis And Violating Human Rights, Environmental Law Groups Tell UN Human Rights Council

Australia is violating human rights in its continued support of fossil fuels and contributions to the climate crisis, environmental lawyers in Australia and the U.S. explain in a recent submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council. These lawyers are urging the Council to make recommendations that Australia take

Oil Companies Demand Re-Hearings In Bid To Keep California Climate Cases From Advancing In State Courts

Oil Companies Demand Re-Hearings In Bid To Keep California Climate Cases From Advancing In State Courts

Fossil fuel companies defending against climate liability lawsuits filed by California communities are asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider recent rulings favoring the California plaintiffs looking to advance their cases in state courts. The companies want these cases in federal courts where they see an easier path

Colorado Governor And State Agency Sued For Missing Deadline To Act On Climate

Colorado Governor And State Agency Sued For Missing Deadline To Act On Climate

Colorado Governor Jared Polis and a state environmental agency are facing a new lawsuit filed by an environmental advocacy group arguing the government failed to meet a legally required deadline to issue rules for reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions as mandated by statute. The lawsuit, filed July 9

Appeals Court Rules Colorado Climate Case Can Proceed In State Court

Appeals Court Rules Colorado Climate Case Can Proceed In State Court

Colorado communities suing oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy over local climate impacts and associated costs can advance their case in Colorado state court, a federal appeals court has ruled. It is the latest setback for fossil fuel companies fighting similar climate liability lawsuits across the country. The Tenth Circuit

Report: Global Climate Lawsuits Against Governments And Polluters On The Rise

Report: Global Climate Lawsuits Against Governments And Polluters On The Rise

Climate litigation is not going away any time soon. Lawsuits demanding accountability and action on the existential threat of climate change continue to take hold across the world with some significant new developments and new cases emerging over the past year, according to a new report on trends in global

Irish Government Faces Supreme Court Challenge Over Inadequate Climate Action

Irish Government Faces Supreme Court Challenge Over Inadequate Climate Action

Story originally published by DeSmog UK A lawsuit brought by an environmental group against the Irish government seeking more urgent action to stave off climate catastrophe and protect citizens came before the country's Supreme Court last week. If successful, it could have a ripple effect on courts being

DC Is The Latest To Sue Exxon And Big Oil For Climate Disinformation Campaigns

DC Is The Latest To Sue Exxon And Big Oil For Climate Disinformation Campaigns

Story originally published by DeSmog Washington, D.C. is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the

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