Climate fights at European court may ripple across the globe

Three climate lawsuits are making their way to a prominent court in France. Its rulings cannot be appealed and may have ripple effects in the...

By Lesley Clark | 03/28/2023 06:43 AM EDT

View of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, will hear three climate cases beginning this week.AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias

Models of vehicles from defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. are displayed at an expo in London.Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Fear of climate lawsuits spreads beyond fossil fuel industry

By Corbin Hiar | 03/27/2023 06:56 AM EDT

Flames close in on cars parked along a country road at the Blue Cut Fire near Wrightwood, Calif.

Flames close in on cars along a country road at the Blue Cut Fire near Wrightwood, Calif. A landmark climate report released this week calls on countries to accelerate their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.David McNew/Getty Images

IPCC report will likely shake up U.N. climate talks

By Sara Schonhardt | 03/24/2023 07:27 AM EDT

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison answers questions during a 2020 news conference in St. Paul, Minn.

8th Circuit delivers climate blow to Big Oil

By Lesley Clark | 03/24/2023 06:26 AM EDT

The General Services Administration building.

The feds have a low-carbon shopping list. It’s global.

By Jean Chemnick | 03/23/2023 06:40 AM EDT

An offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Offshore oil is about to surge

By Benjamin Storrow | 03/22/2023 06:43 AM EDT

Margaret Owen holds a thermometer at Badwater Basin on July 11, 2021, in Death Valley National Park, Calif.

What the IPCC really says about 1.5 C

By Chelsea Harvey | 03/21/2023 06:44 AM EDT

A large plume of smoke rises from BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in 2010.

‘Climate homicide’: Could Big Oil be sued for disaster deaths?

By Lesley Clark | 03/20/2023 06:31 AM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

E.U. enters clean-energy arms race against the U.S.

By Sara Schonhardt | 03/17/2023 06:35 AM EDT

Texas officials target climate science in textbooks

By Scott Waldman | 03/16/2023 06:27 AM EDT

A security guard at Silicon Valley Bank monitors a line of people outside the office.

Bank’s implosion puts climate tech companies on edge

By Corbin Hiar, Avery Ellfeldt | 03/14/2023 06:36 AM EDT

Large coal piles sits in front of a coal fired power plant in Castle Dale, Utah.

In a first, coal company agrees to use social cost of carbon

By Benjamin Storrow | 03/13/2023 06:49 AM EDT

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