Climate Justice

Shut Down BP: It Is Complicit In Israel’s Genocide In Gaza

April 19, 2025 The Canary. Resist! BP, Climate Justice, England, Fossil Fuels, Israel, London, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, United Kingdom (UK)

Members of Fossil Free London, Energy Embargo for Palestine and the Free West Papua Campaign gathered outside BP’s London HQ in St James’s Square last night ahead of BP’s AGM, taking place today. Campaigners held a banner reading ‘stop fuelling genocide and climate breakdown’, and chanting ‘Shut down BP’. Since the wake of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, BP has come under fire for its supply of energy supplies to Israel. In September 2024, Energy Embargo for Palestine identified in a research report that 30% of Israel’s total energy supplies passes through the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which has gone on to fuel military operations in Gaza.

Trump Administration Ordered To Unfreeze Climate, Infrastructure Funds

April 17, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Climate Justice, Environment, Joe Biden, Legal System, Trump Administration

A federal judge has ordered the release of billions of dollars in funds for climate and infrastructure projects that had been paused by five federal government agencies. The temporary, nationwide injunction instructs the Trump administration to release the funding from two Biden-era initiatives while a lawsuit brought by environmental nonprofits proceeds. “Today’s ruling marks a crucial victory for the rule of law and ensures these vital resources will flow to the people and projects Congress intended to support,” said Skye Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, the legal group representing the plaintiffs, in a press release from the group.

Farmer In Peru Takes Major Germany Energy Firm To Court

March 19, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Resist! Climate Justice, emissions, Energy, Farmers, Germany, Lawsuit, Peru

A lawsuit filed by a Peruvian farmer against major German energy company RWE began on Monday. The claim, which argues that global heating fueled by the firm’s greenhouse gas emissions poses a risk to the farmer’s home, could set a new precedent for climate litigation, reported The Associated Press. “We have waited 10 years for this day, this decisive day,” said Saúl Luciano Lliuya, as supporters cheered outside the courthouse. “I’m very excited; I hope that everything goes well.” The lawsuit, filed in the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, western Germany, makes the case that RWE’s historical emissions have contributed to the global warming that has accelerated glacial melt near Lliuya’s hometown of Huaraz.

Climate Justice Committee Holds Community Meeting On Big Polluter

March 18, 2025 Charlie Berg, Fight Back News!. Organize! Climate Justice, health, Industrial pollution, Minnesota, Northern Iron

The Climate Justice Committee (CJC) and East Side Environmental Justice hosted a community meeting, March 15, in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood of Saint Paul, raising awareness among community members about the growing campaign against the Northern Iron foundry, a major polluter in the area. Around 50 people were in attendance, including local residents, neighborhood activists, elected officials such as Saint Paul City Council Member Nelsie Yang and state House Representative Peter Fischer, and other concerned community members.

Activists Burned Former BP Boss At An Annual Climate Lecture

February 13, 2025 Hannah Sharland, The Canary. Resist! BP, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Direct Action

Climate activists have held a former BP CEO and House of Lords peer’s feet to the fire at a key lecture on the climate crisis. As the climate-wrecking corporation announced another year of killer profits, lord John Browne didn’t quite get the welcome reception he had bargained for at the 10-year anniversary event. However, Fossil Free London made sure he got the one he deserved. To draw attention to more than a decade of him fronting the fossil fuel major branded ‘Blair Petroleum’ after the then Labour Party prime minister’s invasion of Iraq under false pretences, activists called on Browne to “pay up” for the warmongering company’s imperialistic past – and present.

Vermont Faces Legal Challenge From Big Oil Over New Law

January 12, 2025 Alexandra Jacobo, Nation of Change. Educate! Big Oil, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Vermont

In a move that could set a precedent for climate accountability laws across the United States, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute (API) have filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont. The lawsuit challenges Vermont’s groundbreaking law that requires fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by climate change, which has increasingly devastated the state through extreme weather events. The law, passed in 2024, makes Vermont the first state in the nation to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for a share of the financial burden caused by climate change.

A Family Doctor Jailed For Attacking Petrol Pumps With Just Stop Oil

January 8, 2025 The Canary. Resist! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Doctors, ExxonMobil, Just Stop Oil

Dr Patrick Hart took action in August 2022 to demand an end to new licences and consents for oil and gas projects in the UK, something which has subsequently become government policy. Hart appeared before Judge Mills at Chelmsford Crown Court on Tuesday 7 January after being found guilty in October 2024 of Criminal Damage. He had been disabling petrol pumps at Esso Thurrock Services on the M25 on 24 August 2022. Esso is a subsidiary of the Oil giant Exxon Mobil which infamously concealed the alarming findings of its own scientists, which showed that fossil fuels caused global warming.

The Common Ground Between Labor And Climate Justice

January 7, 2025 Pradnya Garud, Portside. Strategize! Climate Justice, Environment, History, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

A fault line runs between labor and environmental movements, or so we’re told. Labor unions have been criticized for focusing on jobs without considering environmental consequences, with some unions supporting controversial projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline, and others opposing bans on fracking. Meanwhile, environmental groups are accused of being divorced from working-class realities, sometimes neglecting lost employment and wages related to the energy transition. The urgency of cutting emissions and phasing out fossil industries to mitigate climate change has brought the seemingly contentious relationship between labor and environment into sharp focus.

Developers Eye Louisiana, Texas For Offshore Carbon Storage

December 30, 2024 Pam Radtke, DeSmog. Educate! Carbon Capture, Climate Justice, Energy, False Solutions, Louisiana, Texas

The fishers in Gulf of Mexico waters off Cameron Parish, Louisiana, estimate their catch has fallen catastrophically from 1 million tons a season to 150,000 tons since the first liquefied natural gas terminal in the parish began operating eight years ago. Now, a new industry is being developed in the waters that were once the most productive grounds in the nation for fish, shrimp and oysters. A company called OnStream CO2 is developing the GeoDura hub, which it says could hold millions of tons of carbon dioxide captured from fossil fuel industries, including LNG terminals, a mile or more below the waters off Cameron Parish’s shores.

New York To Charge Biggest Emitters For Climate Damages Under New Law

December 28, 2024 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Create! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Extreme weather, New York (NY), Oil and Gas Industry

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the Climate Change Superfund Act, which requires major emitters, such as fossil fuel companies, to compensate for damages by helping to fund climate-resilient infrastructure projects. “By signing the Climate Change Superfund Act, Gov. Hochul is addressing the financial burden placed on New Yorkers by the fossil fuel companies,” Richard Schrader, director of New York Government Affairs at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), said in a statement. “It’s a key example of what putting fiscal fairness and environmental justice front and center looks like.

Tacoma City Council Passes Climate Commission Ordinance

December 21, 2024 Talison Crosby, Fight Back! News. Create! City Council, Climate Justice, Democracy, Tacoma

Tacoma, WA – Dozens of community members gathered at the Tacoma City Council chambers on Tuesday, December 17, in preparation for the city of Tacoma’s vote to pass the city’s first Climate and Sustainability Commission into law. “It’s great that the city council is planning to pass an ordinance enshrining the Climate Commission into law, but as it stands there are some serious problems with it,” said Haze Bender, a rank-and-file member of Teamsters Local 174. “As written, the commission is only advisory, has no real power, and all members are appointed, rather than elected.”

New Report Shows A Surge In European SLAPP Suits

December 21, 2024 Stella Levantesi, DeSmog. Strategize! Censorship, Climate Justice, Europe, Lawfare, Oil and Gas Industry, Report, SLAPP Lawsuit

Lawsuits to silence those speaking out and fighting in the interest of the public are increasingly being used as a form of private censorship, according to a new report published last week by the Coalition Against SLAPPS in Europe, or CASE. Developed in collaboration with the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, the report shows that SLAPPs continue to rise in Europe and identifies a total of 1,049 cases between 2010-2023. The lawsuits cover a broad range of topics, and environmental issues made up the second-most-targeted subject of all the SLAPP suits reported, behind corruption.

Climate Change Trial At The Hague

December 15, 2024 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Antarctica, climate crisis, Climate Justice, The Hague

The stakes are extremely high as the impact of fossil fuels on climate change goes to The Hague for hearings December 2-13, 2024 to determine whether nations are obligated to phase out fossil fuels. Will the esteemed court issue an opinion that truly impacts climate change? Antarctica is experiencing a frightening collapse that has polar scientists fearful and speaking out like never before. A link to an interview with James Woodford, a New Scientists’ reporter, who attended a recent emergency session with 450 polar scientists is found at the end of this article. Woodford: “Nobody could have foreseen Antarctic sea ice dropping off a cliff in the way that it has.”

The Zionist Effort To Defund Climate And Environmental Justice

November 28, 2024 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Climate Justice, Congress, Environmental Justice, Nonprofits, Repression, Zionism

While the emissions reduction efficacy of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is still in question, it’s less debatable that the “historic climate law” has distributed hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, to certain climate and environmental justice organizations (CEJ). Many in the U.S. climate community herald this development as CEJ groups have been historically underfunded and markedly less resourced than historically white-led environmental organizations, commonly referred to as “Big Green.” According to a 2020 report by researcher Michael Thomas, environmental justice organizations received between $25 and $50 million.

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