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As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.
The Trump EPA plans to reverse the 2009 endangerment finding that labels CO2 a pollutant, threatening US climate regulations. Using a legal argument to dodge scientific consensus, the move could ...
Revoking the 2009 endangerment finding would weaken regulation of greenhouse gases and shift more responsibility to states ...
Environmental Protection Agency officials might end the agency's prior "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gas emissions ...
The EPA’s decision does not alter CT's efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions but is likely to make it harder for it to ...
The hottest year on record was 2023 — until 2024, when the Earth’s average temperature reached 1.55C above the pre-industrial ...
An opinion by the World Court finds new legal requirements in the Paris Agreement, raising legal questions about the U.S.
The Trump administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Tuesday revoking a science-based determination ...
A landmark opinion delivered by the United Nations' highest court last week that governments must protect the climate is ...
A new ruling from the World Court provides climate activists new tools for demanding accountability. On July 23, in a stunning 140 page advisory opinion, (ICJ, or World Court) held for the first time ...
The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...
The International Court of Justice has issued a landmark opinion reinforcing governments' duty to combat climate change, ...