Dana Drugmand

A historic youth climate trial kicked off Monday in Vancouver 🇨🇦 🧑‍⚖️ More on this case & what happened on opening day of trial (incl. what Canada is arguing in defense) here 👇 www.climateinthecourts.com/youth-climat...

A historic youth climate trial kicked off Monday in Vancouver 🇨🇦 🧑‍⚖️ More on this case & what happened on opening day of trial (incl. what Canada is arguing in defense) here 👇 www.climateinthecourts.com/youth-climat...

Starting now - a historic youth constitutional climate change trial against the Canadian federal government #youthvgov #climatelitigation #climatetrial insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...

Starting Monday, Canada 🇨🇦 will be put on trial in a constitutional case brought by youth activists challenging the adequacy of the government's climate policies The judge himself said if the youth win, the impact "may be profound" 👀 👨‍⚖️ #climatelitigation insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

At least 50,000 heat deaths last summer. Imagine nearly all the people in a mid-size town dying over the course of a few months; Freising in Bavaria, or St. Pölten in Austria ...

You hear all the time about how our society is too intimately tied to fossil fuels to easily do away with them. What you don't hear about so often is how the fossil-fuel industry deliberately planted that idea in our heads decades ago. Great piece from @grist.org grist.org/culture/hidd...

Reported a story on the increasingly popular #agroforestry method of silvopasture amid peak fall 🍁 in #Vermont These highly #climate & #biodiversity positive methods continue growing in popularity a recent USDA survey shows This despite the trumps clawing back $$ & consolidating support programs:

Trial has been set for Feb. 2028 in Makah & Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribes' climate case against Big Oil 👀 www.everettpost.com/state-news/j...

Meanwhile, the administration has just announced $42 million of taxpayer dollars going into the (yet-to-be-built) Constitution fossil gas pipeline, claiming it will "dramatically lower electricity and home heating costs across the region"

The soaring cost of living & the economy are top concerns for US voters heading into the midterm elections The current affordability crisis painfully illustrates the costs of an economic system underpinned by volatile & climate-destabilizing fossil fuels www.oneearthnow.org/p/why-were-p...

The Trump administration has renewed its campaign to torpedo a Rhode Island offshore wind farm called Revolution Wind, even though the project is nearly complete and would provide much-needed electric power to hundreds of thousands of homes.

"We are entering a new era of civilizational risk and retreat." My latest for @nytimesoped.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o... #wildfires

Wind energy generation showing real progress in New England, even as the Trump admin continues its anti-wind crusade www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Over the past week, the top courts in 2 major fossil fuel producing nations heard or decided landmark cases that could have significant implications for the fossil fuel industry The Australian court delivered a pro-accountability ruling Will #SCOTUS do so too? www.oneearthnow.org/p/a-tale-of-...

The Mt Pleasant coal mine expansion was expected to generate 870 Mt of CO2 - 98% of it from burning the coal overseas But the project's approval failed to consider imposing conditions to minimize these emissions - and was thus invalid, the court said www.climateinthecourts.com/australias-h...

I wrote about how no matter what SCOTUS decides in Suncor v. Boulder case, they can't stop climate attribution science. One way or another, accountability is coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...

"I lost everything in the Marshall Fire, including my pets and my home," 21 yr-old Alina Miranda said. "My state has a right to protect my health & hold corporations like Suncor responsible for the damage they’ve caused families like mine by prioritizing profit" www.sierraclub.org/Sierra/sunco...

"I lost everything in the Marshall Fire, including my pets and my home," 21 yr-old Alina Miranda said. "My state has a right to protect my health & hold corporations like Suncor responsible for the damage they’ve caused families like mine by prioritizing profit" www.sierraclub.org/Sierra/sunco...

Big win for climate accountability in Australia 🇦🇺 Australia's High Court ruled that approval of a coalmine expansion failed to consider imposing conditions to minimize scope 3 GHG emissions - and was therefore invalid www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big day for climate & environmental law today w/ #SCOTUS hearing Suncor v. Boulder A rundown here on some of things that came up during oral arguments www.climateinthecourts.com/big-oil-and-...

It's the eve of a "blockbuster" climate case hearing at the US Supreme Court (and yes, the term "deception" in the title here is intentional, as there is lots of mischaracterizing going on) Some thoughts here #SCOTUS #climatelitigation #BigOil www.climateinthecourts.com/climate-dece...

Just days before the Supreme Court hears Boulder’s landmark climate case against Big Oil, a New Jersey county filed the latest climate suit against the industry.

A NJ county filed the latest climate suit against #BigOil just days before SCOTUS hears a landmark climate case. That decision could end the county’s suit & dozens of others nationwide But county officials say they weren't deterred by the looming #SCOTUS ruling insideclimatenews.org/news/0210202...

Update - Today legal challenges to this rollback were filed by a coalition of environmental groups (@sierraclub.org, @biologicaldiversity.org & others) and, separately, by California & 25 other states, cities & counties www.sierraclub.org/sierra/fuel-...

Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.

I spoke to lawmakers and advocates in Minnesota, Washington State, Connecticut, and Vermont, and their message to polluters is clear: they're not backing down.

States want to make Big Oil pay for climate harm. Now, courts are weighing in.

Aaron's piece is spot-on This extends far beyond climate & "really does represent an attempt to fundamentally restructure our corporate governance model in the US" They want to not only dismantle the regulatory state, but also take away any judicial recourse to remedy harms. It is utter impunity

The Trump administration finalized a rule on Monday that significantly rolls back fuel economy standards on motor vehicles—a move that harms public health, the environment and consumers pocketbooks. It comes as gas prices skyrocket and Americans reel from an affordability crisis.

In these perilous times, w/ escalating backlash to climate action from corporate polluters & government backers, the UN SG reminded us that those fighting for accountability & justice "are on the right side of history" More reflections here from #ClimateWeekNYC www.oneearthnow.org/p/keep-going...

Justice Samuel Alito, who holds investments in individual fossil fuel companies, just recused himself from a key climate case before the Supreme Court. But he participated in the decision-making process to hear the case in the first place.

The recusal follows new research from @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social showing that Alito owns individual stocks in oil companies that have warned shareholders for years that climate lawsuits against them could pose financial risks

A group of civil-rights and free-speech lawyers said Tuesday that they had identified “staggering” missteps in a multimillion-dollar verdict against Greenpeace last year and argued that the judgment should be overturned. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/c...

Earlier this yr, MI brought an antitrust lawsuit against #BigOil alleging a conspiracy to thwart renewables & EVs. Legal experts said this approach - a departure from other climate deception suits - seemed promising On Tues. a federal court tossed out the case insideclimatenews.org/news/2309202...

With a US Supreme Court case on climate deception looming, the oil company Suncor insists it never denied climate change. But my new @desmog.com story draws on documents showing Suncor helped lead a group in the 90s that spread 'uncertainties' about the science. www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/s...

Climate campaigners today delivered petitions w/ over 2 million signatures to the UN calling on governments to make polluters pay Their demand was just echoed by the UN Secretary-General @polluterspay.bsky.social

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In announcing the proposed rollback of all limits on power plant GHG emissions, EPA claimed: "Any potential public health harms are too uncertain, conjectural, remote, and convoluted to tie specifically to the US power sector" But EPA's own website appears to dispute this claim

As climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies get closer to trial, oil giants and a constellation of well-funded allies are deploying multiple strategies to try to undermine the cases or completely immunize the industry from liability. Here's a roadmap of all the ways they're doing it.

The Trump administration is considering proposals for at least 12 data centers and data center-related infrastructure projects to be built on federal public lands — far more than previously known.

The Supreme Court has recognized and upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases for nearly two decades. But the EPA is repealing the 2024 greenhouse gas standards for power plants and eliminating climate pollution controls for the electric sector. This is disastrous for the climate.

While erasing any limit to planet-heating pollution from power plants, Donald Trump's EPA made two bold claims - that this will lower Americans' energy bills and the pollution doesn't even matter anyway. The EPA's own documents tell a very different story www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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On Wednesday a congressional committee will consider advancing a sweeping liability shield bill that would immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate lawsuits 👀 Meanwhile, the Trump admin is repealing all climate regulations insideclimatenews.org/news/1509202...