2020 Climate Change Government Politics 
Legal Planet
MAY 14, 2024
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order that likely ends one of the most closely-watched climate change lawsuits in recent American legal history: Juliana v. Briefly, 21 children represented by the Oregon-based non-profit Our Children’s Trust sued the federal government in U.S. United States.
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. Montana represents a sweeping victory for lead plaintiff Rikki Held and her 15 co-plaintiffs–all minors when the case was filed in 2020. In Held v. legal history.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 19, 2024
By 2020, however, a United Mine Workers union spokesman said he couldn’t remember the last time Trump had said the word “coal.” It is contrary to the interests of the utilities, which are powerful political players in their own right. It remains to be seen how long increasingly uneconomic coal generators remain online.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
In the first legislative act under his watch, his Republican majority last month passed an appropriations bill that seeks to gut many federal programs meant to fight climate change. It stops the government from factoring in the social cost of greenhouse gases in budgets and environmental reviews. Despite the fact that 99.9
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 31, 2022
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.
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
MAY 25, 2023
In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher. The political pressure came with a personal connection: Sen. In another, titled “Breaking Wind,” he scoffed at claims that climate change was good for farmers.
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