US Supreme Court rejects bid by oil companies to toss Honolulu's climate suit
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Sunoco and other oil companies to scuttle a lawsuit by Honolulu accusing them of misleading the public for decades about the dangers of climate change induced by the burning of fossil fuels.
The top United Nations court has taken up the largest case in its history, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change.
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This failure exposes the weakness of the Biden administration’s position supporting the climate change plaintiffs.
Research published in October, opens new tab in Nature Climate Change calculated that about 13% of deaths associated with toxic wildfire smoke during the 2010s could be attributed to the ...
The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a landmark climate decision that declared the state was violating residents' constitutional right to a clean environment by allowing oil, gas and coal ...
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The solicitor general’s misguided endorsement of state-driven climate lawsuitsU.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has urged the Supreme Court to allow climate lawsuits, such as one brought by ...
Historic climate change advisory: What the case before the International Court of Justice might mean
This climate change case started in 2021 when a group of law ... but will influence all countries. This could open the door for transnational climate litigation, especially in matters of the ...
The Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled that the case was not about whether the young people were trying to impose an obligation on the government to fight climate change, as the lower court judge ...
“This decision does nothing more than declare open season on Montana ... legal right to bring the case, the state argued the youth stories of harm from climate change impacts were not ...
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