Although no one has won a liability suit against a large emitter, some cases are now lasting longer and reaching fact-finding ...

Vermont was the first state to try to hold polluters accountable for climate disasters. New research aims to assign specific ...

From her home on Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter and wonders if ...

Climate activists are changing tactics through baseless state lawsuits and counterproductive "superfund" bills.

For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.” ...

Advocates cite the harm continuing pollution causes to vulnerable populations that have suffered for decades from highway ...

I remember watching Gov. Kathy Hochul sign the Climate Change Superfund Act into law in January last year. This was the ...

A lawsuit charges National Grid, a major gas utility, with mismanaging a toxic industrial site near two densely-populated ...

Though the Trump administration frames this order as an intervention required to safeguard domestic energy production and eliminate regulatory overlap, environmentalists, legal experts, and state ...

On March 31, 2025, Citizen Action of New York, People United for Sustainable Housing Buffalo, Sierra Club, and WE ACT for Environmental Justice sued ... 2024 Climate Change Superfund Act, S2129B/ ...

Senate Bill 1187 would have made companies responsible for millions of metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution pay into a “climate superfund ... in Vermont and New York in 2024.

“They really do not have the capacity, if they’re sued ... program has generated over $28 billion in funding for climate initiatives, including electric vehicle rebates, urban tree planting and ...