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By O.H. Skinner Charleston’s climate change lawsuit is part of a nationwide effort by left wing activists to score policy wins (think Green New Deal) in the...

The House Oversight Committee’s 14-month investigation into whether energy companies misled the public about the impacts of oil and gas on the global climate was unable to uncover evidence of wrongdoing.

A Utah judge dismissed a lawsuit against the state filed on behalf of by a group of youths who asserted the state’s promotion of fossil fuel development violates their civil rights and poses a threat to their lives.

Massachusetts' lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for deceptive advertising will continue in state court after a federal appeals court dismissed the company's claims that the state's lawsuit violated the company's First Amendment rights to free speech.

Jurisdictional questions continue in Rhode Island’s lawsuit against oil companies over purported damages from climate change.

The city of Baltimore’s effort to force 23 energy companies compensate it for the costs of climate change through litigation hit a roadblock in May when the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn a lower court's decision to remand the city’s lawsuit to state court.

The Supreme Court of Oregon has rejected claims brought on behalf of youth plaintiffs that the state’s public trust doctrine imposes broad duties on it to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions.

In another in a string of defeats in lawsuits in which youth plaintiffs are attempting to force governments to take action to fight climate change, Florida circuit court Judge Kevin Carroll dismissed a lawsuit brought eight Florida youths against Gov. Ron DeSantis and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.

A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a U.S. District Court’s June 2018 ruling dismissing climate change lawsuits brought by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against five oil companies, potentially putting the case back in California state court.

A Virginia judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 young people who claim that the state's permitting of fossil fuel projects exacerbates climate change and violates their constitutional rights.