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. Harvard Law student Ted Hamilton discusses with host Steve Curwood the lawsuit that’s attempting to compel Harvard to divest its portfolio of fossil fuels, and the connections between divestment and the broader...
When our grandchildren write the history of the climate movement, they’ll save a few pages for the trials of 2016. First, they’ll focus on Snohomish County, Washington, where, last Friday, Seattle-area jurors found the so-called Delta 5 not guilty of obstruction for blockading a regional oil facility in 2014. The protest and the acquittal were...
CDP co-founder Kelsey Skaggs was invited onto Living on Earth to discuss the fossil fuel divestment lawsuit brought by Alice, Kelsey, Ted and fellow students against Harvard.
The New York Times covered the first-of-its-kind fossil fuel divestment lawsuit brought against Harvard by CDP co-founders Alice Cherry, Ted Hamilton, Kelsey Skaggs, and four other students.
CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton wrote in Salon about the need for the grassroots climate movement to engage in civil disobedience.
CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton wrote one of the first pieces on the climate necessity defense for The Boston Globe.
