Sabin Center in the News, 2019
October 2019
- Exxon’s Climate-change Accounting Goes on Trial, Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2019
- Exxon goes to trial next week over secret carbon costs, E&E News, October 18, 2019
- Vanuatu looks to World Court over polluters — climate expert, RNZ, October 17, 2019
- Exxon and Oil Sands Go on Trial in New York Climate Fraud Case, InsideClimate News, October 17, 2019
- Greta Thunberg in exclusive interview: “The election of Trump was a turning point for the climate movement,” Dagens Nyheter, October 13, 2019
- City Council Vote on Jails Plan; Public Advocate’s Priorities; Senate Hearings on 50-A & Education Aid; & More: The Week Ahead in New York Politics, October 14, Gotham Gazette, October 13, 2019
- Marshall Islands, low-lying U.S. ally and nuclear testing site, declares a climate crisis, Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2019
- Kids’ climate lawsuit to go before Alaska court, Nature, October 9, 2019
- As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts, Scientific American, October 9, 2019
- How Trump agencies’ NEPA reviews lowball climate impacts, E&E News, October 9, 2019
- Supreme Court to decide whether to halt Baltimore climate case, Climate Liability News, October 3, 2019
- Alaska Tells FERC $45B Pipeline Project Won’t Do Harm, Law360, October 3, 2019
- Trump’s climate change denial is causing a science ‘crisis’, says new bipartisan report, Mic, October 3, 2019
September 2019
- Big Law Firms Draft Model Climate Laws in Pro Bono Project, Bloomberg Law, September 26, 2019
- What the climate petition filed by 16 kids at the U.N. really means, Grist, September 25, 2019
- Climate Liability Lawsuits Could Help With Costs of Adapting to a Hotter Earth, NPR Radio, September 23, 2019
- Big Oil is getting sued for climate change, but some cities won’t join the legal fight, Sun Sentinel, September 21, 2019
- Climate Protesters and World Leaders: Same Planet, Different Worlds, The New York Times, September 21, 2019
- California Sues the Trump Administration in Its Escalating War Over Auto Emissions, The New York Times, September 20, 2019
- Climate Change Will Create 1.5 Billion Migrants by 2050 and We Have No Idea Where They Will Go, Vice, September 12, 2019
- ‘Climate change’ missing from some red-states disaster plans, E&E News, September 12, 2019
- Event: Earth Institute Experts to Discuss How to Act on Climate, State of the Planet, September 12, 2019
- After Opioids, Will Climate Change Be the Next Successful Liability Battle? Climate Liability News, September 12, 2019
- 100 Climate Experts at the Earth Institute, State of the Planet, September 11, 2019
- Exxon, Climate History on Trial: Oil Giant’s Legal Challenges Reach Critical Mass This Fall, Climate Liability News, September 10, 2019
- If You’re Selling A House in Texas, You Now Need to Disclose If It Has Ever Flooded, Texas Public Radio, September 6, 2019
- Where the 2020 candidates stand on climate change, CBS News, September 4, 2019
August 2019
- How the Top Ten Democratic Candidates Plan to Deal With Climate Change, State of the Planet, August 29, 2019
- 84 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump, The New York Times, August 29, 2019
- Could big opioid ruling bolster climate cases? E&E News, August 27, 2019
- Pro Bono Legal Team Helps Farmers and Homeowners Fight for Renewable Energy, State of the Planet, August 22, 2019
- Bernie Sanders’ $16 Trillion Climate Plan is Nothing Short of a Revolution, Earther, August 22, 2019
- General counsel lack climate change leadership, The Global Legal Post, August 21, 2019
- What the Climate Crisis Means for Land Rights, State of the Planet, August 20, 2019
- Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play? InsideClimate News, August 19, 2019
- Top CDC Health and Climate Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint, InsideClimate News, August 16, 2019
- Colombia’s youth fighting for the Amazon — in the courts and on the streets, Beloit Bulletin, August 16, 2019
- The Energy 202: Here’s what environmentalists are really worried about with Trump’s new power plant rule, The Washington Post, August 14, 2019
- Why Temperatures in Prisons and Jails Matter, Big Easy Magazine, August 14, 2019
- Daily on Energy: Legal fight over Trump coal plant rule shows just how divided red and blue states are, Washington Examiner, August 14, 2019
- States and cities sue EPA over rollback of climate regulations aimed at coal plants, The Washington Post, August 13, 2019
- Pacific Islands Group Pushes for International Court Ruling on Climate Change and Human Rights, Climate Liability News, August 13, 2019
- Democrats’ newest climate platform: Hammering fossil fuel companies, Politico, August 12, 2019
- To Counteract Trump on Climate Change, States Set Clean Energy Targets, Governing, August 2, 2019
July 2019
- Agencies Prep for Climate Change Despite Hostility from Trump, U.S. News, July 30, 2019
- New York Has a Climate Plan — Now It Has to Follow Through, Scientific American, July 29, 2019
- Editorial: Addressing climate change is New York’s moonshot, The Post Star, July 27, 2019
- War on science: Trump Administration muzzles climate experts, critics say, The Guardian, July 26, 2019
- ‘They Dragged Their Feet’: Con Ed’s Plan for Heat Waves is Years Behind Schedule, Gothamist, July 24, 2019
- Amid Heat Wave, Many Jails Lack Air Conditioning, Truthout, July 24, 2019
- Science might help win climate cases. Here’s how, E&E News, July 23, 2019
- Targeting emissions, Texarkana Gazette, July 21, 2019
- New York climate plan sets 30-year goal for 100% renewable energy, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2019
- New York puts in place ambitious climate plan, Politico, July 19, 2019
- New York climate law aims to drive dramatic changes over the next 30 years, PBS Newshour, July 18, 2019
- New York takes lead in climate change fight, Politico, July 18, 2019
- Colombia’s youth fighting for the Amazon — in the courts and on the streets, Deutsche Well, July 18, 2019
- Wheeler: Obscure air provision behind Paris withdrawal, E&E News, July 15, 2019
- Climate Cases to Watch Around the World, E&E News, July 10, 2019
- It’s New York vs. California in a New Climate Race. Who Will Win?, The New York Times, July 8, 2019
- White House climate guidance could spark NEPA battles, E&E News, July 8, 2019
- Lawyers embracing the good fight for solar power, PV magazine, July 8, 2019
- Legal action on climate change is a rising global trend, Earth.com, July 6, 2019
- Governments and Businesses in 28 Countries Face Lawsuits Over Climate Change Action, Interesting Engineering, July 4, 2019
- Climate change looms large in endangered species litigation, E&E News, July 2, 2019
- ‘People are in danger’: the prisoners feeling the effects of US climate crisis, The Guardian, July 2, 2019
- Company Lawyers Fear Climate Change Litigation, Ozy, July 1, 2019
June 2019
- Trump reverses Obama on climate change, KCRW, June 29, 2019
- Recent Science Raises Oil Industry’s Climate Litigation Risk, Forbes, June 26, 2019
- Kids suing governments about climate: It’s a global trend, National Geographic, June 26, 2019
- Does Attribution Science Give Climate Litigators a Smoking Gun? Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, June 25, 2019
- The heat is on, New York: A new climate law is a major landmark, but now requires work and sacrifice, Daily News, June 23, 2019
- White House proposal: Long-term climate impacts not relevant, Mercury News, June 21, 2019
- White House tells agencies they no longer have to weigh a project’s long-term impacts, The Washington Post, June 21, 2019
- Trump Cuts Weight of Climate Change in Environmental Reviews, Bloomberg Environment, June 21, 2019
- New York approves sweeping climate plan, CBS News, June 21, 2019
- Why environmentalists are taking their climate fight to Canadian courtrooms, CBC News, June 21, 2019
- Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is Being Sued Again Over Climate Impacts, Truthout, June 19, 2019
- Federal damage payments shatter record set after Katrina, E&E News, June 19, 2019
- New York to Approve One of the World’s Most Ambitious Climate Plans, The New York Times, June 18, 2019
- Should company lawyers do more on climate risk? Financial Times, June 18, 2019
- The Right to a Stable Climate is the Constitutional Question of the Twenty First Century, The New Yorker, June 15, 2019
- After Losing a Similar Case, BLM Sued Again Over Climate Impacts of Oil and Gas Leases, Desmog, June 14, 2019
- Broad US power sector emissions reduction feasible, but influencing decision makers is key, S&P Global Platts, June 14, 2019
- A Climate Plan Even Exxon Could Love, Huffington Post, June 11, 2019
- 3 Republican ex-EPA Chiefs Rebuke Trump EPA on Climate Policy & Science, InsideClimate News, June 11, 2019
- NPR News Now, NPR News, June 11, 2019
- Report: Trump Administration Yet To Defend Any Climate-Related Rollbacks in Court, Wyoming Public Radio, June 10, 2019
- After Two Years, Report Finds Trump Yet To Win Climate Rollback In Court, InsideEPA, June 10, 2019
- U.S. Climate Change Litigation in the Age of Trump: Year Two, State of the Planet, June 10, 2019
- Climate change: Geoengineering solutions prompt debate over global regulation, International Bar Association, June 10, 2018
- Most climate-related litigation in the Trump era supports protection, Axios, June 10, 2019
- Climate Litigation in the Trump Era, Axios, June 10, 2019
- Legal defeats pile up for Trump rollbacks — report, Climatewire, June 10, 2019
- Update on Climate Change Litigation, Lexology, June 7, 2019
- New Podcast: Legal Pathways to Decarbonization in the U.S., State of the Planet, June 5, 2019
- Feds still trying to stop ‘climate kids’ lawsuit, KTVZ.com, June 5, 2019
- Judges Give Both Sides a Grilling in Youth Climate Case Against the Government, The New York Times, June 4, 2019
- Americans youth sue for a livable climate, Phys.org, June 4, 2019
- Is it our constitutional right to live in a world safe from climate change? Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2019
- Pam’s Points: Trump’s insidious war on climate and science, Times Free Press, June 3, 2019
- Dee-Fense! The Sallan Foundation, June 1, 2019
May 2019
- Trump’s Latest Attack on Federal Climate Science May Backfire, Wired, May 31, 2019
- Trump’s Bid To Weaken The Next Federal Climate Report Is Likely to Backfire, Wired, May 29, 2019
- Trump’s Bid To Weaken The Next Federal Climate Report Is Likely to Backfire, Huffington Post, May 29, 2019
- Oil Company Supporters Argue that Cities Cannot Sue for Climate Liability, May 22, 2019
- Five Legal Principles for the Green New Deal, The Washington Post, May 22, 2019
- How Lawyers Can Help Save The Planet, Law 360, May 21, 2019
- Concrete ‘Coffin’ Storing U.S. Atomic Bomb Waste At Risk of Rupture, UN Chief Warns, Huffington Post, May 21, 2019
- The U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific Island. Now it’s cracking open, The Washington Post, May 20, 2019
- This Democrat is Running For President Behind A $9 Trillion Dollar Climate Change Plan, Buzzfeed News, May 16, 2019
- How do tribal nation’s treaties figure into climate change? High Country News, May 14, 2019
- Should Tribal Nations Use Treaties To Hold the Feds Accountable for Climate Change? Huffington Post, May 14, 2019
- Climate Law Expert Testifies to Congress on Renewable Energy, State of the Planet, May 8, 2019
- Fringe demand goes mainstream: Stop drilling and mining, E&E News, May 6, 2019
- Climate change poses mental health risks to children and teens, Science News for Students, May 2, 2019
- Climate Experts to New York: Go Green or Go Home, Grist, May 2, 2019
- Government Attempts to Silence Science Are Revealed in Detail, Scientific American, May 2019
- Global Climate Coalition documents reveal the electric utility industry’s role in notorious climate denial campaign, Energy and Policy Institute, May 1, 2019
April 2019
- These 5 rules could be coming soon, E&E News, April 26, 2019
- Wanted: ‘Legion of lawyers’ to fight climate change, E&E News, April 24, 2019
- Rising tides, intense storms and floods wake-up call for homeowners, homebuyers, Bankrate, April 23, 2019
- Hope is a far more powerful force than confrontation when it comes to climate change, The National, April 23, 2019
- ‘This is how to build it’: Book aims to provide a legal guide to decarbonization, Energy News, April 18, 2019
- Warren Vows to Leave Fossil Fuel Reserves in the Ground, a 180 degree Turn from Trump, Inside Climate News, April 17, 2019
- [VIDEO] Plans for Floating City Prototype Underway, Construction Equipment, April 16, 2019
- Big Oil in de beklaagdenbank, De Groener Amsterdammer, April 10, 2019
- Fighting environmental policies, Tong picks up where Jepsen left off, The CT Mirror, April 10, 2019
- Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany, The New York Times, April 9, 2019
- From Nuisance Laws to the Green New Deal: Four Fun Facts, Above the Law, April 9, 2019
- Floating cities – fantasy or the future?, BBC News, April 7, 2019
- New Recommendations for a Climate-Smart National Flood Insurance Program, State of the Planet, April 4, 2019
- Fighting climate change at the local level, To The Point, April 4, 2019
- Alaska judge reinstates drilling ban, striking down Trump’s 2017 executive order, CBSN, April 4, 2019
- Environmental lawyers fight fire with fire, adopt ALEC’s methods to tackle climate change, Think Progress, April 1, 2019
- These Lawyers are Creating an ALEC for Climate Change, Nexus Media, April 1, 2019
March 2019
- Where does US climate policy stand in 2019? Brookings, March 22, 2019
- Do Americans Have a Constitutional Right to a Livable Planet? Meet the 21 Young People Who Say They Do, Vogue, March 21, 2019
- How to solve climate change? There are a thousand answers,The Hill, March 20, 2019
- Environment Remains Under Siege Two Years Into the Trump Administration, The Revelator, March 18, 2019
- Climate change and human rights – Can the courts fix it? Reliefweb, March 18, 2019
- Striking Students Demand Climate Action: ‘Denial is Not a Policy‘, Climate Liability News, March 15, 2019
- Conservative lawmakers have climate change education in their scopes, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 14, 2019
- Youth are changing the game on climate change, CBS News, March 13, 2019
- Sri Lanka seeks to reduce carbon footprint of its tea industry, ColomboPage, March 7, 2019
- Sustainability Plan for 2020 expected to include plans for pathway to carbon neutrality, Columbia Spectator, March 6, 2019
- Could a group of children make Trump tackle climate change? The Week, March 5, 2019
February 2019
- Meet the Black Climate and Social Justice Leaders You have Never Heard Of, Huffington Post, February 28, 2019
- The Green New Deal debate is in part about the absence of details, Yale Climate Connections, February 27, 2019
- How many regs could it take to launch the ‘Green New Deal’? E&E News, February 25, 2019
- The White House’s attack on scientists could manipulate public opinion,op-ed by Romany Webb and Lauren Kurtz, The Hill, February 2019
- Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits, Vox, February 22, 2019
- Declaring a National Emergency Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis, Pacific Standard, February 19, 2019
- A Scientist Who Resisted Trump Administration Censorship of Climate Report Just Lost Her Job, Mother Jones, February 17, 2019
- Consumer Group Says Data Back Clean Car Standards, Law360, February 15, 2019
- Scientist who resisted censorship of climate report lost her job, Reveal, February 14, 2019
- Six Reasons To Be Hopeful About Fighting Climate Change, State of the Planet, February 13, 2019
- In Groundbreaking Ruling, Australia Court Strikes Down Proposed Coal Mine Citing Climate Risks, Earther, February 11, 2019
- New governors accelerate clean energy action, propelled by Democratic midterm wave, Utility Dive, February 8, 2019
- The Green New Deal Shows How Grand Climate Politics Can Be, Wired, February 8, 2019
- Microgrids Can Protect Public Health. So Why Aren’t We Using More That Way? Microgrid Knowledge, February 1, 2019
January 2019
- “We’ve entered a new era” of public concern about climate change, survey finds, CBS News, January 25, 2019
- Should a future president declare climate change a national emergency?, Grist, January 22, 2019
- Climate Case Ireland: Climate plan not designed to reduce emissions,” Green News, January 22, 2019
- ‘Silencing Science Tracker’ Tallies 287 Government Attacks on Science in Past Two Years, The State of the Planet, January 21, 2019
- Could a Future President Declare a Climate Emergency? The New York Times, January 16, 2019
- If The Wall Is An Emergency, Then What About Climate Change? BuzzFeed News, January 11, 2019
- ExxonMobil Can’t Hide its Climate Records Any Longer, The American Prospect, January 11, 2019
- Supreme Court Issues ‘crushing blow’ to Exxon in major climate case, legal experts say, ThinkProgress, January 7, 2019
- Five climate struggles to watch in 2019, New Internationalist, January 4, 2019
- A Surge of Climate Lawsuits Targets Human Rights, Damage from Fossil Fuels, InsideClimate News, January 4, 2019
