climate litigation

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December 16, 2024

Looking Ahead to Climate Litigation in 2025: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Kathy Mulvey / UCS USA

November 18, 2024

Five Ways the Fossil Fuel Industry Tries to Co-opt UN Climate COPs

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

People lined up at a climate protest in Manhattan, New York.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

November 6, 2024

A Second Trump Administration Threatens an Assault on Climate, Energy, and Justice Priorities

Chitra Kumar
Managing Director, Climate and Energy Program

A scientist in a lab is speaking with reporters

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September 18, 2024

Your Research Can Help Inform Climate Litigation

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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July 2, 2024

What’s New in Climate Lawsuits?

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

A group of scientists stand in front of Citigroup on Wall St. during the Scientists Speakout Day in June 2024. They hold a banner showing the global average temperatures from 1860 via a color graph that becomes much redder after 2010.

Hannah Poor/UCS

June 20, 2024

Scientists Demand Citigroup End Fossil Fuel Funding

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

corporate boardroom with microphone

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May 28, 2024

Here’s What We’re Asking Major Fossil Fuel Corporations at This Year’s Annual Meetings

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

ExxonMobil on a financial stock computer screen

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

April 4, 2024

As its Lone Climate Scientist Board Member Departs, ExxonMobil Still Heads in the Wrong Direction

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

A scientist, underwater in diving gear, examines coral reefs and makes notes on an underwater clipboard in Virgin Islands National Park. Warmer ocean temperatures and more acidic waters (from increased carbon dioxide levels) are bleaching and dissolving coral reefs around the world.

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April 4, 2024

New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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January 25, 2024

Climate Litigation: Reflection and Anticipation for 2024

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

January 10, 2024

Navigating Net Zero Via the Law

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Hannah Poor/UCS

November 20, 2023

World Leaders Must Protect UN Climate Talks from Fossil Fuel Industry Interference

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

Mika Baumeister/Unsplash

November 6, 2023

Climate Litigation and UN Climate Talks: An Important Symbiosis

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Make Polluters Pay Campaign

September 21, 2023

California Advances Corporate Climate Accountability Amid New Evidence of ExxonMobil’s Deception

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

photo of a gavel being tapped on a courtroom desk; the judge's hand holding the gavel can barely be seen in the dark background

Ekaterina Bolovtsova/Pexels

July 18, 2023

Climate Litigation Is Spreading Around the World

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Kari Greer/US Forest Service

May 22, 2023

Western Wildfires are Burning Through Local and State Budgets

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

Chris LeBoutillier/Unsplash

May 10, 2023

An A to Z of Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

March 24, 2023

Rising Seas, Rising Stakes: The Case for an International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion

Shaina Sadai
Hitz Fellow

March 7, 2023

From Research to Action: The Growing Impact of Attribution Science

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

A protestor holds up a sign reading "we demand climate justice" at a Climate Strike and march in Pittsburgh on 9/24/21.

Mark Dixon/Flickr

January 30, 2023

Six Ways Science Can Boost Climate Accountability in 2023

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

Two people survey the devastation created by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, the morning after it hit

Roosevelt Skerrit/Flickr

January 30, 2023

Three Predictions for Climate Litigation in 2023

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Mike Mozart/JeepersMedia

May 26, 2022

A Year After the Shell Ruling: Big Victories and Next Steps for Climate Litigation

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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April 18, 2022

How the Latest IPCC Reports Can Strengthen Climate Litigation Efforts

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

April 11, 2022

Experts Take on Carbon Polluters in the Courtroom

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation