HUMAN RIGHTS FINDING ON CLIMATE CHANGE COULD SPUR ACTIVIST LAWSUITS

A recent human rights petition accusing the United States of inaction on global warming could encourage future lawsuits from environmentalists against government agencies or corporations by establishing for the first time an obligation under international law for the United States to address climate change, activists tracking the petition say. A member of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, which represents indigenous peoples in the Arctic regions of the United States and Canada, filed the petition in December with the Inter American Commission...