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Pennsylvania County Takes On Big Oil As Climate Deception Cases Continue Mounting

Pennsylvania County Takes On Big Oil As Climate Deception Cases Continue Mounting

A county in southeastern Pennsylvania just north of Philadelphia filed a climate accountability lawsuit on Monday against a handful of major oil and gas companies and their chief trade association, seeking to hold them liable for rising costs associated with recovering from and preparing for increasingly severe climate impacts such

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

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

Montana Defendants Claim Trial Judge "Had No Authority" To Rule On Historic Youth Climate Case

Montana Defendants Claim Trial Judge "Had No Authority" To Rule On Historic Youth Climate Case

In August 2023, Montana District Court Judge Kathy Seeley issued what has been described as a “landmark” and “historic” win for the sixteen young people who sued their state government over a policy that bans regulators from even considering climate change in routine environmental impact assessments. Following a seven-day trial

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