Climate Activists Argue Criminal Acts Legally Excusable Under Necessity Doctrine
Vermont Law
MARCH 16, 2018
By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Upcoming cases will provide U.S. justice system first glimpse of juries’ taste for climate action necessity. On October 11, 2016, in an effort known as #ShutItDown, a group dubbed the “Valve Turners” traveled to five remote locations in North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Washington, cut through locked enclosures, and turned the shut-off valves on five pipelines carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada into the United
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