Wild Fish Conservancy v. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
The Washington Supreme Court upheld the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's issuance of a marine finfish aquaculture permit to allow a fish farmer to transition from farming Atlantic salmon to steelhead trout. Conservation groups argued the Department's conclusion that an EIS was not requir...
Buffalo Field Campaign v. Williams
A district court granted environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to FWS' 2019 determination that listing the Yellowstone bison as endangered or threatened under the ESA was not warranted. The groups argued the determination, among other things, failed to properly consider wh...
Delaware v. BP America Inc.
A district court granted Delaware's motion to remand to state court its climate liability lawsuit against fossil fuel companies. Delaware argued it had suffered, and would continue to suffer, damages from climate impacts caused by the companies' denial of and disinformation about the existence, caus...
A New Causal Pathway for Recovery in Climate Change Litigation?
Courts across the globe recognize that human-induced climate change leads to more frequent and severe extreme weather and other events, resulting in significant damages to persons and property. Although courts have therefore ordered countries and corporations to take more aggressive actions to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, no court has yet required any emitter to pay damages for injuries from a climate changerelated event. Causation issues remain a significant obstacle to such claims.