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Youth And Their Attorneys Push Back On Government Attempts To Avoid Accountability In US Climate Lawsuits

Youth And Their Attorneys Push Back On Government Attempts To Avoid Accountability In US Climate Lawsuits

Attorneys representing young Americans in two separate constitutional climate lawsuits - one at the state level in Montana and the other against the federal government - have filed response briefs as government defendants in each case seek to evade accountability through the courts for policies and actions that exacerbate dangerous

"Landmark Victory In The Fight Against Greenwashing": Dutch Airline KLM's Sustainability Ad Claims Are Misleading, Court Rules

"Landmark Victory In The Fight Against Greenwashing": Dutch Airline KLM's Sustainability Ad Claims Are Misleading, Court Rules

A court in the Netherlands handed down what environmental campaigners say is a “historic” verdict today against Dutch airline KLM, finding the company’s sustainability claims in its advertising – including its professed commitment to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement – to be misleading and in violation of EU consumer

Defying Dutch Court Order, Shell Doubles Down On Oil And Gas - Report

Defying Dutch Court Order, Shell Doubles Down On Oil And Gas - Report

Shell continues to expand its oil and gas operations and approve development of new extraction projects in an apparent violation of a 2021 Dutch court ruling requiring the oil major to reduce CO2 emissions across its entire supply chain by 45 percent by 2030, a new report suggests. The report

Big Oil Urges US Supreme Court To "Put a Stop" To Climate Deception Lawsuits

Big Oil Urges US Supreme Court To "Put a Stop" To Climate Deception Lawsuits

Lawyers representing oil and gas industry defendants in a climate lawsuit brought by the city and county of Honolulu are calling on the US Supreme Court to quash this suit and others targeting the industry as the cases start advancing towards trial. Warning that the industry faces the threat of

New York Files Climate Greenwashing Suit Against Beef Giant JBS

New York Files Climate Greenwashing Suit Against Beef Giant JBS

The State of New York has filed a climate lawsuit against JBS, the world’s largest beef producer, seeking to hold it accountable for alleged misrepresentations and misleading marketing. The company has engaged in deceptive business practices and fraud through greenwashing claims about the environmental sustainability of its beef products

Why Is The Biden DOJ Blocking A Landmark Youth Climate Suit?

Why Is The Biden DOJ Blocking A Landmark Youth Climate Suit?

Piece originally published by Drilled In late December, a federal district court judge in Oregon issued a ruling that put a landmark youth constitutional climate lawsuit against the federal government firmly back on path towards trial. “The judiciary is capable and duty-bound to provide redress for the irreparable harm government

Chicago Sues Big Oil Over Climate Deception

Chicago Sues Big Oil Over Climate Deception

The city of Chicago filed a climate accountability lawsuit against half a dozen major oil and gas companies and their chief lobbyist group the American Petroleum Institute, charging them with deceptive conduct that resulted in escalating climate-related damages and costs incurred by the city and its residents. Chicago’s lawsuit

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