September 17, 2018 Support CDP’s Groundbreaking Climate Necessity Trial in Minnesota By CDP Three climate activists are going to trial on October 8 in Clearwater County, Minnesota for their courageous protest against the fossil fuel industry...
September 6, 2018 CDP Releases Principles of Climate Civil Resistance Summarizing Legal Basis for Resisting Fossil Fuel System By CDP Berkeley, CA — In conjunction with this week’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice protests, Climate Defense Project has released the...
September 5, 2018 CDP Joins Protect the Protest Coalition By CDP Climate Defense Project has joined a coalition of nonprofits and legal groups called Protect the Protest.
July 17, 2018 Climate Activists Win in Minnesota Supreme Court, Setting Stage for Historic Climate Necessity Trial By CDP The Minnesota Supreme Court today ordered that a groundbreaking climate protest case be allowed to...
June 12, 2018 CDP Co-founders Alice Cherry and Kelsey Skaggs Named Echoing Green Climate Fellows By CDP Climate Defense Project co-founders Alice Cherry and Kelsey Skaggs have been awarded a prestigious...
May 30, 2018 Washington Court of Appeals Rules Against Necessity Defendants But Leaves Room Open for Future Defenses By CDP The Washington Court of Appeals today ruled against a group of defendants known as the Delta 5, who had...
April 23, 2018 Minnesota Court of Appeals Allows Groundbreaking Climate Necessity Case to Proceed By CDP In a high-profile victory for climate activists and lawyers, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled today that four protesters may present...
March 28, 2018 Massachusetts Judge Dismisses Charges Against Climate Activists and Recognizes Necessity of Protest By CDP In a victory for the climate movement yesterday, Judge Mary Ann Driscoll of the West Roxbury District Court in Massachusetts found...
March 22, 2018 Charges Reduced for West Roxbury Fracked Gas Pipeline Resisters By CDP One week prior to trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office has abandoned its plans to prosecute the remaining Resist...
March 22, 2018 No Jail Time or Fines for Climate Activist Leonard Higgins By CDP Fort Benton, MT — Valve-turner and CDP client Leonard Higgins was sentenced on Tuesday for his part in a coordinated protest...
