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  • Lawsuit accuses Virginia power company of poisoning Dominican community with toxic coal ash 0

    Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago A civil lawsuit in state court in Delaware charges AES Corp. -- one of the world's largest power companies -- with illegally dumping 160 million pounds of toxic coal ash waste onto beaches in the Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic, leading to serious health problems for nearby residents.

  • Climate law update

    A victory for Katrina victims; a defeat for Alaskan villagers 0

    Posted 1 month, 1 week ago A federal appeals court has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by victims of Hurricane Katrina seeking damages related to global warming, while a federal district court in California has dismissed a similar lawsuit brought by an Alaskan village allegedly disappearing beneath rising sea levels.

  • The courts weigh in: states win critical round in fight to slow global warming 0

    Posted 2 months, 1 week ago With all attention focused elsewhere, a key federal court handed climate and clean energy advocates a major surprise victory yesterday.

  • Everything old is nuisance again

    Connecticut v. AEP: Public nuisance ruling may boost chances of EPA CO2 regulations 1

    Posted 2 months, 1 week ago The Second Circuit's recent decision in Connecticut v. AEP, in which a coalition of state attorneys general sued electric power producers to cap and then reduce their carbon emissions, allows the public nuisance case to proceed and gave the environmental plaintiffs virtually everything they wanted. A few aspects of the case stand out (aside from the obviously correct decision that a common-law tort suit is not a nonjusticiable political question). Most importantly, the Court's holding on "displacement," i.e. whether the Clean Air Act "displaces" the common law suit, actually makes EPA regulations somewhat more likely.

  • Mainstream greens applaud Sotomayor confirmation 1

    Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

    Enviros are cheering for brand-new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday on a 68-31 vote.  Well, make that many enviros, not all. 

  • A love supreme?

    Enviros back Sotomayor for Supreme Court 4

    Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Green groups are throwing their weight behind Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, even though she doesn't have much of a record on environmental decisions and hasn't always ruled in favor of enviros.

  • Three Degrees of Speculation

    Can human rights be the climate movement’s moral guide? 7

    Posted 6 months ago

    Arguments that climate is, more than anything, a rights issues, from speakers at the Three Degrees conference in Seattle.

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