Why every rightwing think tank has an amicus program
Litigation and Law
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The Supreme Court Strategy to Take Us Back to Pre-New Deal America
How the Major Questions Doctrine is being used to dismantle environmental regulation.
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The Supreme Court’s Obscure Procedural Ruling in Baltimore’s Climate Case, Explained
The court’s ruling permits the defendants to continue to delay litigation in state court and deny the public information.
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Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change communications
From Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes, this rhetorical analysis of Exxon’s communications about climate change over recent decades shows how the company’s advertisements worked to shift responsibility for global warming away from the fossil fuel industry and onto consumers. Exxon also said that climate change was a “risk”, rather than a reality, that renewable energy […]
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Secret Tribunals and Hand-Picked Arbiters—A Little-known System Undermines Environmental Regulation
How trade agreements and mandatory arbitration clauses could make it harder for countries worldwide to take strong climate action.
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“Like a War on the Environment” —Texaco’s 30 Years in Ecuador
Decades after winning their case against Chevron, Ecuadorian plaintiffs are still suffering from poisoned water and soil.
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Blood of the Devil
The history behind Ecuadorians’ decades-long court battle with Chevron.
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UN Environment Programme Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review
The Global Climate Change Litigation Report – Status Review provides an overview of the current state of climate change litigation around the world. It updates the 2017 report on the same and finds there has been a rapid increase in climate litigation. In 2017 there were 884 climate change cases brought in 24 countries. In […]
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Corporate promotion and climate change: an analysis of key variables affecting advertising spending by major oil corporations, 1986–2015
Advertising by fossil fuel companies is a ubiquitous element of modern political life. Promotional campaigns in the service of a corporation’s position toward environmental issues such as climate change are prevalent in the oil and gas sectors, where corporate image is seen as a valuable asset in managing risk, controlling negative media attention, and overcoming […]
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Energy Transfer RICO Complaint Against Greenpeace
RICO complaint filed against Greenpeace by Energy Transfer in 2018. The case was thrown out for lacking merit.