Nebraska sues neighboring Colorado over how much water it’s drawing from the South Platte River
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New study attributes nine trillion dollars of climate change related damages to just five companies, and outlines how they could be held accountable for specific local damages
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Wyoming pays $150,000 to settle lawsuit over botched prosecution of hemp farmers
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Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11billion investor-state dispute settlement.
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Sweden's Supreme Court rules that climate activist Greta Thunberg's legal challenge against the state for insufficient climate action is inadmissible
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In a first, Arizona’s attorney general sues an industrial farm over its water use
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Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals – the WWF is suing the state in a bid to halt exploration
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Lawsuits allege deadly 2021 Texas blackouts were an inside job, that energy companies reduced energy supply before storm
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Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation
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Eleven on trial in Sweden's largest environmental crime case – Bella Nilsson's company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste
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Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon
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Citing climate change, a federal court in Brazil halts rainforest highway paving
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US Supreme Court rejects states agreement over Rio grande water distribution
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Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
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Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
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Switzerland’s climate failures breached human rights, top court rules
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UK law firm files letter of claim on behalf of Madagascar villagers over contamination allegedly from Rio Tinto mine
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US court bans three dicamba based weedkillers and finds Environmental Protection Agency broke law in approval process
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How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California?
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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Greta Thunberg and four other climate activists are due to appear in court today after being arrested at a protest outside a gathering of fossil fuel bosses in London
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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
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Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan
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Companies knew the dangers of PFAS 'forever chemicals'—and kept them secret
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New York residents say a hazardous waste incinerator’s emissions violate their new constitutional right to a “healthful environment.”
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US Justice Department sues eBay over unlawful sales of pesticides, other products
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a lawsuit Saturday against five major oil companies and their subsidiaries over climate change
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Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’
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California court dismisses lawsuit over nuclear power plant
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Lawsuit over polychlorinated biphenyl contamination filed by Massachusetts mother of boy with leukemia. Lawsuit targets GE, Monsanto, Bayer and others.
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Judge rules in favor of Oklahoma against big chicken producers in poultry-pollution lawsuit
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Chemical companies’ PFAS payouts are huge – but the problem is even bigger
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Outrage as Alaska's Attorney-General asks US Supreme Court to reverse Environmental Protection Agency's Pebble Mine veto
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In the Northern Rockies, grizzly bears are on the move. As grizzlies recover, they’re no longer content to roam within the boundaries we’ve contrived for them.
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Spanish authorities are seeking €90 Million in damages from a Swedish mining company for a major toxic spill near the famed Doñana National Park in 1998
11 votes -
Landmark ‘kids’ climate trial begins: how science will take the stand
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Swedish court has given Greta Thunberg and climate activists the go-ahead to proceed with a class action lawsuit against the government for insufficient climate policy
11 votes -
Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic
4 votes -
Young Australians just won a historic human rights case against an enormous coal mine
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other youth activists to file a lawsuit against the Swedish government over its alleged inaction on climate change
3 votes -
Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
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Environmental defenders celebrate a ‘huge’ win for ‘unique’ Tasmanian rainforest
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Sri Lanka to pay $200m compensation for failed organic farm drive
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Norway's supreme court stripped two wind farms of their operating licences in a case that could boost the legal rights of the country's indigenous Sámi people
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Fossil fuel firms sue governments across the world for £13bn/$18bn as climate policies threaten profits
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Norwegian climate activists have asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule against Norway's plans for more oil drilling in the Arctic
7 votes -
Ex-owners of polluting Italian steel plant convicted
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Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut net emissions by 45% by 2030
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Steven Donziger has been under house arrest for over 580 days, awaiting trial on a misdemeanor charge. It’s all, he says, because he beat a multinational energy corporation in court.
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How corporate tyranny works - Chevron poisoned the Amazon, and then punished environmental lawyer Steven Donziger when he tried to get justice
14 votes