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Will recent climate victories in the courtroom actually lead to steeper emission cuts?  July 8, 2021 Judges have started stepping in where regulators fear to tread, delivering high-profile victories to activists who have sued on behalf of nature—and future generations. The idea of assigning legal rights to nature, which seemed a pipe dream for decades, seems to be gaining traction. As the New York Times noted in its recent obituary for Christopher Stone, his influential 1972 book Should Trees Have Standing? “long seemed out of step with legal reality, but that has begun to change.” In ...

One of the biggest challenges in addressing climate change is that it’s a very slow-moving ­crisis. We need to take action now in order to avert problems many years, even decades, into the future, . . .

As the Dutch court case made clear, society’s expectations of companies are rising even faster than global temperatures.

* Fossil fuel firms under greater scrutiny for climate impacts

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. This case is one of a number of cases brought by states, cities, and other municipalities against energy companies alleging that the companies contributed to climate change. By granting certiorari and hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision remanding the suit to state court after rejecting the energy compan...