UN rights expert urges governments to protect biological diversity
John Knox, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, urged all governments Thursday to fulfill their existent obligations to protect the world's biological diversity from extinction. Knox warned:The extinction of species and the loss...
US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the US will no longer be part of the Paris climate accord . 195 nations have signed on to the deal making it a world-wide effort to curb global warming. Foreign...
Swiss voters on Sunday backed the government's plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy. They also voted by a 58.2 percent majority to ban nuclear power plants and to help bail out struggling utilities, which overturns...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday signed the Fairbanks Declaration to affirm protection of the arctic climate. The move was a part of the 10th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting , with goals to maintain...
Guest Columnist Kip Wainscott, Head of Legal & External Relations at CrowdJustice, discusses the fight against gerrymandering, and the value of digital organizing tools to empower movements and make them more accessible... Across the country, lawyers and voting rights advocates...
JURIST Guest Columnist James M. Grijalva discusses the recent controversy concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline...As spring emerged on the northern plains in late March, news broke of unrelated but congenerous developments in the long running sagas of two oil pipelines...
The South Africa Constitutional Court dismissed the Department of Environmental Affairs's (SADEA) appeal to maintain the moratorium on domestic trade of rhino horn on Wednesday. The moratorium was issued in 2009 under section 57(2) of the...
Trump administration requests delay of appeals court ruling on Clean Power Plan
The Trump administration on Tuesday asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to postpone ruling on the Obama administration's climate change regulations. This request came after President Donald Trump signed [JURIST...
Trump signs executive order rolling back Obama energy regulations
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday reforming the previous administration's energy policies. Trump stated that previous policies and regulations became burdensome to the energy industry and that by altering these regulations and...
The US State Department granted a presidential permit to the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline on Friday allowing it to "construct, connect, operate, and maintain pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canadian border in Phillips County, Montana...
