UK High Court Throws Out Case Brought by Climate Activists Against Oil Regulator January 19, 2022 By Shadia Nasralla A UK High Court on Tuesday threw out a case brought by climate activists against the country’s oil and gas...
Climate Activists Behind Landmark Shell Verdict Set Sights on 30 Multinationals January 13, 2022 By Anthony Deutsch and Simon Jessop The Dutch wing of environmental group Friends of the Earth, which won a landmark court case against Royal Dutch Shell...
South Africa Sued Over Plans to Construct New Coal-Fired Power Plants November 17, 2021 By Antony Sguazzin South Africa’s energy regulator and energy minister have been sued by environmental activists over national plans to allow the construction...
‘Attribution Science’ May Help Plaintiffs Push Climate Suits Ahead September 23, 2021 By Susanne Sclafane Although a U.S. Supreme Court decision put an end to climate lawsuits alleging violations of the federal common law of...
Is Climate Litigation Covered by Insurance? September 23, 2021 By Susanne Sclafane Federal or state court? How will attribution science impact climate litigation? The questions aren’t the only ones of interest to...
Social Inflation or Science: What Is Fueling Climate Litigation? September 23, 2021 By Susanne Sclafane A rising amount of litigation tied to the environmental and health impacts of greenhouse gas emissions prompted a question from...
Groundbreaking Climate Court Victories Face Problems with Enforcement August 18, 2021 By Diederik Baazil Marjan Minnesma cheered along with her fellow climate activists in May when a judge ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc to...
Shell to Appeal Landmark Climate Ruling in Dutch Court July 21, 2021 By Laura Hurst and Diederik Baazil Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it will appeal a ruling by a Dutch court which ordered it to cut its...
Big Oil May Face More Climate Lawsuits After Shell Ruling, Say Lawyers, Activists May 28, 2021 By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals LONDON – A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming...
Shell Loses Landmark Climate Case in Ruling with Global Implications for Big Oil May 27, 2021 By Bart H. Meijer, Ron Bousso and Shadia Nasralla THE HAGUE/LONDON – A Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to drastically deepen planned greenhouse gas emission cuts on Wednesday,...