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Youth Continue Climate Court Battles Against Governments

1 week ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

Young climate activists in Europe and the United States who have faced setbacks in their lawsuits challenging government climate policies are continuing to turn to courts in renewed attempts at accountability, filing fresh cases and appeals as they seek to hold governments accountable for exacerbating the climate emergency. In Sweden, youth activists announced earlier this week that they are reviving their lawsuit against the Swedish government.
Dutch Climate Campaigners Sue The Netherlands’s Largest Bank

4 weeks ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

The Dutch environmental NGO Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) formally filed a lawsuit today against ING, the largest bank in the Netherlands, challenging the bank’s climate policies. The lawsuit seeks to compel ING to align its financing activities with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Top US Court Officially Ends Landmark Youth Climate Suit Against The Federal Government

1 month ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition to review a landmark youth constitutional climate lawsuit against the US federal government that an appellate court had quashed last year. The Supreme Court’s denial of the youth plaintiffs’ petition officially brings an end to the Juliana v. United States lawsuit, which has inspired a global wave of youth-led legal actions challenging government climate policies over the last decade.
Judge Dismisses Case Challenging Alaska LNG Project In Latest Setback For Youth Climate Cases

1 month ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

An Alaskan state court judge has dismissed a youth climate case seeking to halt the state’s development of a massive new liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, deciding that the youths’ constitutional challenge to a state law authorizing the project is beyond judicial review. In a March 10 order granting dismissal of the case Sagoonick v. State of Alaska II, Alaska Superior Court Judge Dani R. Crosby ruled that the political question doctrine barred youth plaintiffs’ claims.
Sweden's Supreme Court Quashes Youth Climate Suit

2 months ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

A climate lawsuit brought by youth activists in Sweden against their national government will not move forward, after Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled that the case is inadmissible. On February 19, the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that the young people’s case challenging the adequacy of Sweden’s climate policies was not viable.
Landmark Climate Case Against Shell Goes To Dutch Supreme Court

2 months ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

Article co-published with One Earth NowWhen a Dutch court ruled in 2021 that Shell must reduce CO2 emissions across its supply chain by 45% by 2030, climate campaigners hailed it as a “historic verdict” and a “monumental victory for our planet.” The decision marked the first time that a court had held a major fossil fuel company accountable for contributing to the climate crisis and first time it had ordered a corporation to reduce its emissions accordingly.
Republican States Launch Legal Challenge To New York’s Climate Superfund Law

2 months ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

Nearly two dozen Republican-led states are suing several New York state officials in an attempt to overturn New York’s novel climate change superfund law, which was enacted in late December. West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey announced the multi-state legal action against the New York law on February 6, calling it unconstitutional and misguided.
Court Overturns Approvals Of Rosebank And Jackdaw Oil And Gas Fields

2 months ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

A Scottish court has ruled that UK government approvals of offshore oil and gas fields were unlawful on the grounds that the downstream greenhouse gas emissions from burning the fuel were not taken into account. The ruling is a significant victory for climate campaigners challenging new fossil fuel projects over their climate impacts.
Big Oil May Finally Have To Face Trial In Climate Deception Lawsuits. Why It Matters - And What Comes Next

Jan 20, 2025 | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and other major oil and gas companies could, within the next couple of years, be put on trial in the US for allegedly sowing doubt about climate change and exacerbating costly climate damages, according to several climate law experts who have closely tracked the ongoing municipal and state litigation against oil companies.
Vermont v. Big Oil In Court: State’s Climate Deception Case Moves Closer To Trial, While Industry Allies Challenge Landmark Climate Superfund Law

Jan 4, 2025 | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

The state of Vermont is a step closer to putting Big Oil on trial for alleged climate change deception with a recent state court ruling rejecting oil companies’ motions to dismiss the state’s climate accountability case. At the same time, Vermont officials are now facing a new lawsuit brought by industry groups representing major oil companies that seeks to quash Vermont’s first-in-the-nation “climate superfund” legislation enacted just last year.