Anti-oil and gas advocates across the country have pursued litigation in recent years attempting to force the fossil fuel industry to pay for decades of financial damages the advocates claim…
Category: Climate Lawsuits
Shell Oil Sued Over “Causing Typhoon” in Philippines in Major Test Case
The Shell litigation is an important test case. Activists have spent years seeking financial support and recognition for their pseudoscientific claims that they can measure a chaotic and non-linear atmosphere.…
America’s Energy Independence Threatened By “Dark Money” Lawfare
Beyond distorting our law and politics, this climate lawfare inflicts another harm on America: it suppresses production of reliable energy sources like natural gas in favor of weather-dependent windmills and solar panels.
NGOs Help Philippine Typhoon Victims to Launch a Climate Lawsuit
NGOs should be helping these people put their lives back together. Instead, they appear to be encouraging wild fantasies of a big payday.
Greenpeace Asks a DUTCH Court to Overturn a $345 Million Dakota Pipeline Judgement
Greenpeace appears to think European courts have pre-eminence over US courts, even for events which happened in the USA.
Supreme Court should not let climate lawfare set US energy policy
Let’s hope the Supreme Court agrees that Boulder’s lawsuit is an excellent opportunity to terminate frivolous climate lawfare, expand on the guidance it provided in these two previous cases –…
Claim: Rejecting Emissions Targets Undermines the International Rules Based Order
Apparently New Zealand’s climate defiance could bring down the Jenga Tower of international law.
New York At The Green Energy Wall — What Is The Exit Strategy?
Our legislators, innumerate to a person, had bought into the fantasy — peddled by lightweight academics like Mark Jacobson and Robert Howarth, and by grifting promoters like the American Wind…
New York’s climate law hits the wall
Hell done froze. New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a leading contender for Greenest Governor in America, wants to redo their infamous Climate Act because New Yorkers cannot afford it. This…
Eco-Activists’ Courtroom Carbon Tax Must Be Stopped
When the lawyers for the environmental movement tell you what they’re trying to do, believe them. They’ve admitted quiet part out loud: their lawsuits are a carbon tax by another…
NY Politicians Face Climate Act Consequences
The politicians who supported the Climate Act did not include defined affordability and reliability risk limits, a feasibility analysis, or concrete implementation plans. The necessity to consider a pragmatic approach…
Zillow, First Street, and the Price of Panic: Can Climate Data Be Sued?
The Uerkwitz lawsuit could be the first of many. If courts begin recognizing that climate risk data can inflict tangible economic harm, the entire architecture of climate fearmongering—from ESG scoring…
Obama Judge Dismisses Youth Climate Court Case
“… while this court is certainly troubled … this concern does not automatically confer … the power to act. …”
Orsted vs. Trump: An Offshore Battle Looms
What this $10 billion battle with the Trump administration means for Orsted’s Danish government owner remains to be seen.
UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal want to keep world’s poor impoverished
Poor and developing nations need to band together, finance their own energy infrastructure, development, health and prosperity – and tell the carbon colonialists to take a hike.
Judicial Limits on Glyphosate and Climate ‘Jackpot Justice’ Litigation
The lawsuits involve computer models with zero predictive capability; conclusory assertions devoid of actual supportive evidence; and refusal to recognize Earth’s tumultuous climate history, powerful natural forces that caused momentous…
STEVE MILLOY: Rescinding Key Obama EPA Finding May Prove Tougher Than Trump Admin Thought
Implementing President Trump’s April 9 Executive order to simply rescind the endangerment finding would have prevented the uncertain litigation mess now being faced. Maybe I’m wrong and all will turn…
The UN’s Krazy Kangaroo Klimate Kourt
Vanuatu and other “climate vulnerable” island nations claim they are threatened by rising seas and worsening typhoons caused by fossil fuel use. In response to an emotional petition from them…
Despite International Courts, Climate Science Is Not the Law in the U.S.
On the heels of the international court’s irresponsible and (thankfully) unenforceable decree, and the DOE’s astute recommendation to do the opposite of what the court prescribed, came a story from Reuters declaring…