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US Chief Justice Roberts denied an application Friday to stay a climate change lawsuit against the government. This reverses a temporary hold of the case, Juliana v. US, ordered by Roberts last month. The government sought to stay the lawsuit until review of a petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the lawsuit dismissed. The government [...]

At the beginning of this month, the Trump administration announced a new policy that same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and employees of the United Nations will only be granted visas if the partners are married. The State Department immediately applied the policy and refused visas to unmarried partners.  The Department also told partners who lived [...]

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law America’s Water Infrastructure Act, which seeks to “provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources and authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the .” The law purports to benefit nearly every state by authorizing “construction [...]

US Chief Justice Roberts on Friday ordered a temporary hold on a climate change lawsuit until the plaintiffs provide a response to the government. The plaintiffs have until Wednesday to provide a response to the Department of Justice’s stay request. The case, Juliana v. US, was originally filed in the US District Court for the [...]

An Oregon federal judge on Monday ruled that a group of young Americans can move forward with a lawsuit against the US government for climate change inaction but that President Donald Trump cannot be named as a defendant in the case. The suit was initially filed in 2015 by 21 young people and Our Children’s [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal of a 2017 environmental ruling authored by the court’s newest member, Brett Kavanaugh. The opinion, issued by a three-judge panel of Kavanaugh’s former court, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, struck down a regulation issued by the Obama administration’s [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment David Boyd called Monday for accelerated action to combat climate change. The statement comes after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C. Boyd said that climate change is “one of the greatest threats to human [...]

Two Native American communities filed a lawsuit  in the US District Court for the District of Montana on Tuesday alleging President Donald Trump’s administration will violate the tribes’ treaty rights when it permits TransCanada to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. Former president Barack Obama rejected  the pipeline in 2012 and 2015 on climate change grounds, but [...]

California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation Saturday intended to block the Trump administration’s move to allow drilling off the coast of his state. SB-834, drafted in January, “prohibits … granted public trust lands from entering into any new lease or other conveyance authorizing new construction of oil- and gas-related infrastructure upon tidelands and submerged lands [...]

The members of the Pacific Islands Forum  on Wednesday signed  a statement saying that “climate change presents the single greatest threat to the livelihood, security and wellbeing of Pacific people.” The Pacific Islands Forum was attended by representatives of 18 Pacific countries, and the communique was signed at the end of the forum. In the [...]