By Dan Gearino , Keerti Gopal , Marianne Lavelle , Inside Climate News.  Excerpt: The D.C. appeals court decision is the first blow to a series of Trump administration orders to maintain coal power in spite of high costs and harm to health....  Full article at https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11092026/court-rules-against-trump-order-to-keep-costly-michigan-coal-plant-running/ .

By Rachel Santarsiero , Mother Jones.  Excerpt: ...In terms of the sheer scope of heat and extreme weather, 2026 has been a year of climate disasters. Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry—by far the greatest contributor to global climate change...is holding firm. ...oil and gas groups and their networks have accelerated their defenses, fighting with their all-too-familiar playbook of discrediting the science linking emissions to extreme weather events.... ...A new peer-reviewed study published earlier this month in Earth’s Future suggests that it is possible to demonstrate that “emissions from company X cause injury Y.” ...the study’s author, Christopher Callahan —an Earth systems scientist and assistant professor at Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs—built a statistical model to figure out the relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the odds of extreme heat or rain. ...The study’s results are clear: “There i...

By NRDC Nature's Voice.  Excerpt: Siding with NRDC and our allies, a federal court has ruled that the Department of Transportation under the Trump administration acted illegally when it tried to freeze a $5 billion federal initiative to build a nationwide network of reliable, high speed electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations and odered the funds restored. ...It aims to bu9ild EV charging stations every 50 miles on major highways across all 50 states....  Full article at https://issuu.com/nrdc/docs/nature_s_voice_summer_2026 (page 2). 

By Emily Gardner and Grace van Deelen , Eos/AGU.  Excerpt: “NSF’s failure to provide any explanation for its decision—let alone a reasonable one—thwarts meaningful judicial review and renders the challenged action arbitrary and capricious,” the judge wrote. A Colorado judge has granted a preliminary injunction to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). The move temporarily blocks the federal government from moving forward with one part of its effort to dismantle UCAR’s National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) by transferring stewardship of a state-of-the-art supercomputing facility....  Full article at https://eos.org/research-and-developments/judge-blocks-nsf-from-dismantling-ncar .   See also https://www.science.org/content/article/court-blocks-nsf-s-transfer-climate-lab-s-supercomputing-facility . 

By Karen Zraick , The New York Times.   Excerpt: Exxon Mobil sued California late Friday claiming that two new state laws that aim to fight climate change would violate the oil company’s free speech rights. The two laws, passed in 2023 and known as the California Climate Accountability Package, would require thousands of large companies doing business in the state to calculate and report the greenhouse gas emissions created by the use of their products, along with the business risks that climate change represents for the companies. ...In the past, climate regulations have generally required companies to report their own corporate emissions, but not emissions caused by people using the products that they manufacture and sell. For oil companies like Exxon, the new rules, which begin to take effect in 2026, mean calculating and then reporting the emissions caused by activities like the use of gas or diesel in cars and trucks. ... Exxon’s lawsuit , filed in the United States Distr...

By Dharna Noor , The Guardian.  Excerpt: The lawsuit, Juliana v United States, was filed by 21 young people from Oregon who alleged the federal government’s role in fueling the climate crisis violates their constitutional rights. The Wednesday order from a panel of three Trump-appointed judges on the ninth circuit court of appeals will require a US district court judge to dismiss the case for lack of standing, with no opening to amend the complaint. ...[said Julia Olson, attorney and founder of   Our Children’s Trust, the non-profit law firm that brought the suit] “...the full ninth circuit can correct this mistake.”....  Full article at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/youth-climate-lawsuit-juliana-appeals-court . 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/line-five-pipeline-amicus-brief.html By Rebecca Halleck  and  Dionne Searcey , The New York Times.  Excerpt: The Department of Justice has weighed in on a court battle over an oil and gas pipeline in Wisconsin, saying that a Canadian oil company has been willfully trespassing on tribal lands in the state for more than a decade.... 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/world/europe/climate-human-rights.html By Isabella Kwai  and  Emma Bubola , The New York Times.  Excerpt: Europe’s top human rights court said on Tuesday that the  Swiss government had violated its citizens’ human rights  by not doing enough to stop climate change, a landmark ruling that experts said could bolster activists hoping to use human rights law to hold governments to account. In the case, which was brought by a group called KlimaSeniorinnen, or Senior Women for Climate Protection, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, said that Switzerland had failed to meet its target in reducing carbon emissions and must act to address that shortcoming.... 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/05/letitia-james-jbs-meat-lawsuit-greenwashing By Whitney Bauck , The Guardian.  Excerpt: When the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James,  announced  that it would be suing the world’s largest meat company, JBS, for misleading customers about its climate commitments, it caused a stir far beyond the world of food. That’s because the suit’s impact has the potential to influence the approach all kinds of big businesses take in their advertising about sustainability, according to experts. It’s just one in a string of greenwashing lawsuits being brought against large airline, automobile and  fashion  companies of late. “It’s been 20 years of companies lying about their environmental and climate justice impacts...,” said Todd Paglia, executive director of environmental non-profit Stand.earth. ...Research  suggests  that citizens are increasingly demanding more sustainably produced goods, and b...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science By Dharna Noor , The Guardian. Excerpt: ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents revealed by the Wall Street Journal. The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an  investigation  into the company announced in 2015. They add to a  slew  of  documents  that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal  lawsuits  against big oil....

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/big-oil-is-behind-conspiracy-to-deceive-public-first-climate-racketeering-lawsuit-says By  Nina Lakhani , The Guardian.  Excerpt: The same racketeering legislation used to bring down mob bosses, motorcycle gangs, football executives and international fraudsters is to be tested against oil and coal companies who are accused of conspiring to deceive the public over the climate crisis. ...in a lawsuit being brought by communities in  Puerto Rico  that were devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017. “Puerto Rico is one of the most affected places by climate change in the world. It is so precariously positioned – they get hit on all fronts with hurricanes, storm surge, heat, coral bleaching – it’s the perfect place for this climate litigation,” said Melissa Sims, senior counsel for the plaintiffs’ law firm Milberg. The 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act was originally intended to combat criminal e...