Trump climate pushback spurs courtroom battles, report says (opens in new tab)

The trend was most prevalent in the United States, but similar legal battles over the dismantling of climate policies were playing out globally at a scale "without precedent", the report said. "Between last year and this year, the climate movement has responded to that pushback," report co-author Joana Setzer from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics told AFP. "What we see is an increase in litigation that is challenging de-regulation". These "protective" cases ar...