Category: Press

At Earth Island Journal, CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton discusses how judges are misapplying the law by refusing to let juries hear climate necessity defenses.

On Truthout, CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton analyzes the strategic value of climate necessity activism and discusses what it reveals about the fossil fuel system.

CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton and Loyola University Professor Bill Quigley analyze the legal basis of the climate necessity defense at Counterpunch.

The Corvallis, Oregon Gazette-Times featured a piece on climate activist Leonard Higgins. The article quotes CDP’s Kelsey Skaggs on the climate necessity defense: “If there has ever been a political problem that seems to fit within the contours of the necessity defense, climate change is it,” said Kelsey Skaggs, [Climate Defense Project’s] executive director. “Civil...

CDP co-founder Kelsey Skaggs was quoted in a Common Dreams article on Ken Ward’s hung jury: Not only does this ruling bode well for the future “valve turner” trials, but it also could impact other activists who plan to confront the Trump administration with increasingly direct civil disobedience. “The failure of the prosecution’s case shows that...

CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton has published a law review article in The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law analyzing the legal battles over the Keystone XL pipeline. See the related post on the CDP blog.

A Common Dreams piece mentioned our work for the Valve Turners defendants: The groups, which also include the Climate Defense Project and the Civil Liberties Defense Center, had prepared a necessity defense for the trial, which argues that an action was done in the public interest, on behalf of the planet.

A Harvard Law Today piece mentioned the start-up grant that Climate Defense Project won: With the goal of providing a stable climate for future generations, Climate Defense Project — co-founded by Kelsey Skaggs ’16, Alice Cherry ’16 and Ted Hamilton ’16 — aims to fill a gap in existing efforts by enlisting the legal system...