The Straubel Foundation recently posted a short article about CDP’s work and the upcoming documentary film Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance. Climate Defense Project Executive Director Kelsey Skaggs is one of the foundation’s fellows this year. You can follow the film on Facebook or sign up for updates on the Necessity website.
Climate Defense Project Executive Director Kelsey Skaggs published an op-ed in Pacific Standard. The piece discusses how social movements have successfully used the necessity defense.
On Friday, April 26, CDP partnered with psychologist and documentary filmmaker Jan Haaken to host a screening of her film Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance, in which CDP attorneys are interviewed. Held at the OK Stereo Loft in Oakland, the event featured a panel discussion with Haaken, CDP co-founder and attorney Alice Cherry, and...
CDP co-founder and staff attorney Ted Hamilton was interviewed on the most recent episode of the Law and Disorder radio show, speaking about our recent climate necessity defense victory in Washington. (CDP’s Kelsey Skaggs was featured on two previous episodes).
Legal NewsLine has a piece about the ruling allowing the climate necessity defense by the Washington Court of Appeals. The article features CDP co-founder and Executive Director Kelsey Skaggs.
Climate Defense Project April 8, 2019 Contact: Kelsey Skaggs, (510) 883-3118; info@climatedefenseproject.org Today the Washington Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the conviction of climate activist Ken Ward and sent his case back to the lower court for a third trial because Ward was denied his Sixth Amendment right to present the necessity defense to a...
Climate Defense Project co-founders Alice Cherry, Ted Hamilton, and Kelsey Skaggs have an op-ed in The Hill on the importance of civil disobedience to the climate justice movement. The article explains how grassroots direct action is necessary for changing policy and ensuring a just transition, and emphasizes the need for movement legal support like that provided by...
CDP Staff Attorney Alice Cherry moderated and participated in a panel on the climate necessity defense — along with Valve Turner Emily Johnston, law professor Lance Long, and Marla Marcum of the Climate Disobedience Center — at the 2019 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, held at the University of Oregon School of Law. The title...
Check out CDP’s Kelsey Skaggs in conversation with podcast host, author, and legal scholar Grace Nosek. In this episode of Planet Potluck, a climate change-themed podcast, Kelsey and Grace discuss climate litigation, the fossil fuel industry, climate civil disobedience, and the community that can be found in resistance movements. Learn more about the podcast here.
CDP staff attorney Ted Hamilton and Stetson University College of Law professor Lance N. Long have published the first law review article on the climate necessity defense: The Climate Necessity Defense: Proof and Judicial Error in Climate Protest Cases. The article (which you can download directly by visiting the link) reviews the history of the...
