The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has determined that a government can, in theory, be held to account for…
The crime in question is the fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change. Arguably the most consequential…
As early as 1958, the oil industry was hiring scientists and engineers to research the role that burning fossil fuels…
In what may be the most cataclysmic day so far for the traditional fossil-fuel industry, a remarkable set of shareholder…
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared…
Yesterday, The Children’s Trust attorneys met with U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken and Department of Justice attorneys for the…
The fate of the Dakota Access pipeline could be decided at a U.S. court hearing Friday, where federal regulators could…
Twelve states (including Missouri) with Republican attorneys general Monday sued President Joe Biden over his first executive order aimed at climate change, alleging he lacked the constitutional…
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather…
The word “ecocide” is an umbrella term for all forms of environmental destruction from deforestation to greenhouse gas emissions. Since…