April 24, 2017 Guest Post: Emily Johnston on Climate Change, Interconnectedness, and Tolerating Personal Risk By CDP Emily Johnston is a poet, writer, and climate activist currently facing criminal prosecution for her participation in the #ShutItDown (a.k.a. “valve-turner”)...
March 6, 2017 CDP’s Kelsey Skaggs Featured in Necessity Defense Panel Discussion at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference By CDP On March 4, as part of a panel discussion at the University of Oregon School of Law’s annual Public Interest...
March 2, 2017 CDP Political Necessity Defense Jurisdiction Guide: Spreading Knowledge for Legal Activism By CDP CDP has just published the Political Necessity Defense Jurisdiction Guide, a comprehensive resource on the necessity...
February 17, 2017 Climate Defense Project Files Amicus Brief in Delta 5 Case By CDP On February 14, the Climate Defense Project (CDP) filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief in State v...
February 8, 2017 Lessons from the Climate Periphery By CDP After President Trump issued executive orders seeking to resuscitate the Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access Pipelines...
February 6, 2017 CDP Author: Here’s How Eco-Activists Can Fight Trump By CDP Activist Ken Ward admits he broke the law when he shut off a tar sands pipeline, but the surprising outcome of his trial...
February 2, 2017 CDP in the Press: Just in Time for Trump, Jury Says Defense of Planet Is No Crime By CDP CDP co-founder Kelsey Skaggs was quoted in a Common Dreams article on Ken Ward's hung jury...
February 1, 2017 Trial of Pipeline Protester Ken Ward Ends with Hung Jury By CDP Mount Vernon, WA — In a victory for the climate movement, a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Ken...
February 1, 2017 CDP Author: The Virtues of Uncertainty: Lessons from the Legal Battles Over the Keystone XL Pipeline By CDP CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton has published a law review article in The Vermont Journal of Environmental...
