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SLAPP’d: An Indigenous Nation Fights for Its Water

As Greenpeace’s anti-SLAPP hearing gets underway in Europe, a look at what Energy Transfer wanted to keep out of its North Dakota suit.

UPDATED July 02, 2025

EU vs. US Courts Face Off on Free Speech

A landmark anti-SLAPP case underway in the EU could result in a European court verdict declaring Energy Transfer’s suit against Greenpeace legal harassment even as the company seeks to collect a $666 settlement from the environmental nonprofit in the U.S.

UPDATED July 02, 2025
Litigation and Law Firms

As Senate Rams Through Wildly Unpopular Pro-Oil Budget Bill, New Research Shows Fossil Majors Contributed $19 Million to Trump’s Inauguration

Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose the bill, which would gut everything from school lunch programs and veterans benefits to Medicare, while also taking an axe to clean energy projects and jobs, raising energy prices for American families, and adding $4 trillion to the national debt. The big winners in the bill are billionaires and the fossil fuel industry.

UPDATED July 01, 2025
Fossil Fuel Industry
North America

The Fossil Fuel Industry Hasn't Come Up With a New Story in 100 Years, Why Do Climate Folks Find It So Hard to Keep Up?

The fossil fuel industry has been shifting between the same five stories for at least a century. The climate movement needs its own narrative arsenal.

UPDATED June 26, 2025
Newsletter

Court Orders Hungarian Government to Toughen Climate Plans

Hungary’s Constitutional Court has demanded its government write a real climate law, but it remains to be seen which government will win power in the next election and whether it will take this ruling seriously.

UPDATED June 19, 2025
Litigation and Law Firms

Inside the Fight to Get Australia’s Monash University to Divorce Fossil Fuels for Good

One of Australia’s most prestigious universities promised to divest from fossil fuels in 2016. It later revised this decision to say it would only divest from coal, allowing the country’s biggest oil and gas company, Woodside, to fund and name a center. As that partnership comes up for renewal at the end of 2025, students and faculty are pushing the university to reconsider.

UPDATED June 16, 2025
Academia

The Day the Mountains Won

How a Peruvian farmer sued a German coal giant and helped create a legal blueprint to hold fossil producers accountable for climate harms.

UPDATED June 11, 2025
Latin America + Caribbean
Litigation and Law Firms

Bad Maths: How economic modelling paved the way for AI on climate change

Before billionaires were using AI to justify not phasing out fossil fuel, governments and business were using economic modelling to do similar.

UPDATED June 01, 2025
Tech Industry

Dispatch from the Front Lines of Mozambique’s Gas Gamble

Mozambique’s LNG project was supposed to bring prosperity to the country. Instead it has fueled the fires of civil unrest. And while local residents are struggling to survive, a small cadre of elite consultants have found success amidst the rubble.

UPDATED May 29, 2025
Africa
Essays

“All Hell Breaks Loose”: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

Three export terminals that represent half of the U.S. crude oil export industry have sprouted up around Ingleside on the Bay in the past decade, turning the Texas Coastal Bend town into an unlikely fenceline community.

UPDATED May 27, 2025
Climate Justice
Collaborations