This article uses developments in three cases claiming environmental harm and human rights violations arising from Shell Oil's operations in Nigeria – brought in the United States, the Netherlands, and Nigeria – to explore the complex intersection of transnational corporate responsibility,...

Beginning in June 2009, environmental justice groups brought several controversial lawsuits against California's climate change program, sparking concern in the mainstream environmental community that the actions would frustrate the state's climate progress and discourage other states from...

This article considers the ability of environmental assessment laws to bolster legal responses to climate change. Using the California Environmental Quality Act as an example, it explains that environmental assessment laws already impose legal limits upon greenhouse gas emissions. It then...