Insurers’ double standard: Higher rates for you, total immunity for Big Oil
The very companies refusing to insure your home against wildfires and floods are asking the Supreme Court to protect the fossil fuel giants causing them.
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Every major climate court battle tells a bigger story about our world. The Climate Record exists to bring these stories to life.
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Can the US energy transition survive America’s slow courts?
A DC court just dealt a major blow to the EPA's clean energy grant freeze. But a thickening web of litigation threatens to stall the transition anyway.
The Right’s new target? Attribution science
A number of US states are working on legislation to grant fossil fuel giants immunity for their climate impacts – just as the science that demonstrates their liability takes hold.
These Alaska tribes are demanding a say in Canadian mining
Downstream from Canadian mines, Alaska tribes fight a legal battle for survival, sovereignty, and the last wild salmon rivers.
Can a state be a state when its land is lost?
Within this century, the world will have sovereign countries that exist on paper, in cloud servers, and in international law, with no physical land to stand on.
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Every major climate court battle tells a bigger story about our world. The Climate Record is here to uncover those stories.
TotalEnergies on trial: Inside the lawsuit that could rewriting corporate climate accountability
This month, a French court will deliver a historic verdict on the nation’s first climate lawsuit aimed at holding a multinational oil giant legally accountable for its role in global warming.
What happens when the bedrock of US climate policy is wiped away?
For nearly two decades, the Endangerment Finding served as the legal bedrock of American climate policy, compelling the EPA to treat carbon pollution as a threat to human survival.
The accountability decade: tracing the evolution of climate litigation
Over the past decade, climate litigation has evolved into a powerful global accountability system with over 3,000 cases filed worldwide.
How a group of elderly Swiss women proved that climate protection is a basic human right
In 2016, an association of over 2,000 senior Swiss women launched a legal challenge against their government, alleging that inadequate climate policies violated their fundamenal human rights.