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...
Category: Press
January 24, 2017May 8, 2017
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CDP in the Press: Climate Defense Project Featured in “We Are Here” Inauguration Day Rally
Changemakers all over the United States responded to Donald Trump’s inauguration with “We Are Here,” a call to action from activists and elected officials such as Alicia Keys, Bernie Sanders, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Moore, Tulsi Gabbard, Van Jones, Common, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson, and many more. Kelsey Skaggs of Climate Defense Project...
December 1, 2016April 24, 2017
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CDP in the Press: How 5 activists stopped the flow of Alberta Tar Sands oil into U.S.
An article in Street Roots News mentioned our work on the Shut It Down cases: The Climate Defense Project, a legal startup founded by a group of Harvard Law graduates, is working with Brinson’s firm on the Valve Turners’ defense.
June 4, 2016April 24, 2017
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CDP in the Press: This Is What Insurgency Looks Like
CDP co-founder Kelsey Skaggs was mentioned in a Common Dreams article about legal support at the Break Free protests: As people settled in on the tracks, law student Kelsey Skaggs asked those risking arrest to fill out intake forms for the legal team. Then she said . . .
May 12, 2016April 24, 2017
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CDP Author: Climate Disobedience and the New “Public Trust” Laws of Nature
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.
April 22, 2016April 24, 2017
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CDP in the Press: Next-Gen Climate Activism
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...
January 25, 2016April 24, 2017
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CDP Author: Can Breaking the Law Be a Legal Defense?
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...
February 20, 2015April 24, 2017
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CDP in the Press: Harvard Sued Over Fossil Fuel Investments
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.
November 19, 2014January 23, 2018
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CDP in the Press: Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight to Court
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.
September 20, 2014January 23, 2018
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CDP Author: The rebellion to save planet Earth: Why civil disobedience could be our last, best hope
CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton wrote in Salon about the need for the grassroots climate movement to engage in civil disobedience.