The Nation ran an opinion piece today co-authored by CDP’s Alex Marquardt. The piece makes the case for fossil fuel divestment — and for fossil fuel investments as violations of charitable duties — while also explaining the strategy behind filing complaints with state attorneys general.
The complaint CDP helped to prepare asking that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey investigate the legality of Harvard’s fossil fuel investments has been reported on by WBUR, E&E Greenwire, Inside Higher Ed, and The Harvard Crimson. Especially good coverage explaining the strategy behind and significance of the complaint appeared today in Grist.
Climate Defense Project co-founder and staff attorney Ted Hamilton was interviewed on The Daily Bern to discuss the organization’s work and the legal challenges facing climate activists. Check out the video on The Daily Bern‘s Facebook and YouTube channel.
CDP staff attorneys Alice Cherry and Ted Hamilton have written a short post for the I Heart Climate Voices blog. The post argues that courts and governments routinely misapply the law to protect the fossil fuel industry, and that the legal system will tacitly support the fossil fuel economy unless and until protest and social...
Common Dreams has a story on our major win at the Washington Supreme Court, where we helped Valve Turner Ken Ward establish a crucial precedent for the climate necessity defense. Read our press release on the decision. CDP co-founder and staff attorney Alice Cherry was quoted in the Common Dreams piece: Alice Cherry of the Climate Defense...
CDP’s Kelsey Skaggs is quoted in a Civil Eats article on the alarming rise in deadly attacks against environmental defenders across the world: Climate change activists have been labeled as terrorists, said lawyer Kelsey Skaggs with the Climate Defense Project. She pointed to how the company behind the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners used the term “eco-terrorists”—which was...
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.
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 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...
