Climate Defense Project co-founder and Executive Director Kelsey Skaggs has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of trailblazers and risk-takers. Recognized for her work at CDP, Kelsey joins a class of other luminaries in law and policy. Check out the honor here.
CDP's Alice Cherry interprets recent outcomes in climate necessity cases in the context of the midterm elections and reaffirms the value of protest.
Our clients’ recent victory in Minnesota has garnered significant media attention. A Democracy Now! segment features CDP’s Kelsey Skaggs with two of the valve turners and Dr. James Hansen. Click here for part two. Here is a piece in The Nation by Wen Stephenson examining the context of the trial, and an opinion piece by Bill McKibben on the...
Climate Defense Project’s work to promote the climate necessity defense is featured in Jeremy Brecher’s article in Common Dreams about the importance of climate legal activism. Brecher quotes CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton: Ted Hamilton of the Climate Defense Project notes that a criminal defense cannot be based solely “a constitutional right to a safe climate or on...
ThinkProgress has a piece on the big climate necessity win at the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Kelsey Skaggs, co-founder and staff attorney with Climate Defense Project, is quoted: “This is a big win for anyone who cares about climate change,” Kelsey Skaggs, a co-founder of Climate Defense Project and a member of the defendants’ legal...
CDP co-founder and staff attorney Alice Cherry is quoted extensively in a ThinkProgress article on efforts by the fossil fuel industry and conservative state lawmakers to criminalize protest activity directed against the industry: “I think these bills represent an escalation,” Alice Cherry, co-founder and staff attorney of the Climate Defense Project, told ThinkProgress. “The main...
CDP co-founder Alice Cherry was quoted at length in a ThinkProgress article about the West Roxbury case (which you can read about on our Updates page), in which the judge accepted the activists’ necessity argument after prosecutors downgraded the charges to avoid a jury trial: “According to Alice Cherry, co-founder and staff attorney of the Climate...
The Intercept has a story by Alleen Brown on the Valve Turners. Climate Defense Project continues to represent this group of climate activists; on Tuesday, our client Leonard Higgins received no jail time for his part in their October 2016 action against tar sands pipelines.
The New York Times Sunday Magazine has a lengthy feature on a group of our clients, the Valve Turners, who worked together to shut off the flow of tar sands oil through several pipelines in 2016.
CDP co-founder Kelsey Skaggs was quoted in a Forbes article on the recent progress of the climate necessity defense: “In some ways it fits very well with climate change,” said Kelsey Skaggs, a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive director of the Climate Defense Project, which supports climate activists. Defendants must prove the threat of overwhelming harm, Skaggs...
