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Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Baltimore storm damage. Photo credit: Associated Press
A Baltimore street collapsed into a sinkhole after severe storms and flooding ripped through the city in 2014. The city is suing oil companies in an effort to make them pay for damages related to climate change. Associated Press
The outcome of a Supreme Court battle between Baltimore officials and Big Oil over climate change impacts could reverberate in courtrooms across the country, legal experts say.
As the high court deliberates its ruling in
BP PLC v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a host of other lawsuits aimed at holding the fossil fuel industry liable for the local effects of global warming are slogging through preliminary procedural battles. The Supreme Court s decision has the potential to further delay or derail those cases.
Experts Weigh In on the Deep Freeze and Power Outages in Texas
Satellite view of Austin, Texas, covered in snow on February 15. Image: European Space Agency
This month, millions of Texans lost heat, electricity, and running water during a deadly cold snap that has lasted for days. In the midst of the danger and confusion, politicians and pundits immediately began pointing fingers and making spurious speculations as to the cause of the outages.
Earth Institute experts specializing in energy policy, grid resilience, and climate science have been weighing in to help to make sense of the complicated and dire circumstances. Here are some of the questions they are helping to tackle.
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a habitable environment a protected right under the US Constitution. Early on.
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nod giving the impression it was a feel-good human-interest story about kids. Nothing could’ve been further from the truth.
As it survived one legal challenge after another, the case came to be recognized for
what it could be
the most important environmental law case of all time. One equal in stature to