Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Fossil fuel companies are well established as founts of disinformation , agents of obstruction, and drivers of climate change. Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer. However, science plays a key role in bolstering and supporting these legal arguments.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 15, 2023
A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 5, 2023
Human-caused climate change is expected to increase the number and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, and droughts that are already ravaging communities across the United States. But climate change also causes hazards off the field by limiting farmworkers’ income.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 15, 2024
Since starting with Environmental Defence in January, I’ve been grappling with an updated version of those song lyrics: “Why we must talk about climate change when everything is burning?” Given the human cost of climate change, you might think that talking about it while it is ravishing our nation would be easy.
Legal Planet
APRIL 13, 2023
The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. There is, therefore, no legally valid option to simply omit to combat climate change,” the ruling said. In Future Generations v. .”
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The AP also reports that Kenya’s new national government, which took power following an election last August, has promised to form a commission dedicated to cleaning the river, though no action has yet been taken. Water stress throughout Kenya has prompted government action. Water insecurity abounds in Kenya, not just in the capital.
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