If you think there’s something odd about the US committing itself to at least a 26 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2025 even while federally owned lands produce a quarter of the nation’s fossil fuel energy, you just might be a believer in an old legal concept: the public trust doctrine.

Student activists calling for a shift away from fossil fuels say that institutions that refuse to act forfeit their status as moral leaders...

When our grandchildren write the history of the climate movement, they’ll save a few pages for the trials of 2016...