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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

Law Columbia

Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court. Japan’s climate change context. Civil law cases.

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Climate Activists Argue Criminal Acts Legally Excusable Under Necessity Doctrine

Vermont Law

Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. Although no U.S. and one in Minnesota (a Valve Turners’ case).

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Analysis: Russia’s slow progress on climate action set to pick up speed

A Greener Life

The need to bring Russia on board as a climate partner could help thaw icy EU–Russia relations. After seven years of sanctions and accusations of malign activities by all sides, political relations between Russia and both the US and the EU are at their worst since the mid-1980s. Moscow–Beijing political ties have strengthened.

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Why Ceding Nuclear to China and Russia Threatens National Security: Michael Shellenberger's Congressional Testimony July 28, 2020

Environmental Progress

I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes , and other publications, and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” In reality there is a growing amount of good news about climate change.

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Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi from President Michael Shellenberger Expressing Concern Over Denial of Right to Respond to Personal Attacks

Environmental Progress

I understand that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theatre that violates basic civility. I have been a climate activist for 20 years. I am told that Members from both sides sometimes act this way. And yet the U.S.

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

USA: Defense Contractor: Climate Change Could Create “Business Opportunities” Jeremy Schulman | Mother Jones | August 14, 2013 Raytheon is worried about the risks of global warming. But it also thinks climate-related “security concerns” could boost demand for its military products.