Case: American Petroleum Institute v. SEC v. Oxfam Defending Transparency Regulations against Big Oil’s Challenge. When an oil industry group challenged U.S. regulations that would require disclosure of...
Case: Bowoto v. Chevron Peaceful Protest, Military Response: Chevron’s Complicity in Murder and Torture in Nigeria.
Case: Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC An Indian fishing community takes on the World Bank. Fishing communities and farmers are taking on the International Finance Corporation...
Case: Campos-Alvarez v. Newmont Mining Shooting Peaceful Mine Protesters in Peru. In Peru, police brutality against earth rights defenders is a systemic problem especially in...
Case: Chadín 2 Hydroelectric Power Project Request for Constitutional Protection for Earth Rights Defenders Affected by Chadin 2 Hydroelectric Power Plant. The Chadín 2 Hydroelectric Plant...
Case: Climate Change Litigation in Colorado Colorado communities sue fossil fuel companies to pay the costs of climate change adaptation.
Case: Doe v. Unocal The First Case of its Kind: Holding a U.S. Company Responsible for Rape, Murder, and Forced Labor in Myanmar. When...
Case: Energy Transfer Partners v. Greenpeace, BankTrack, et al. Defending dissent and the right to free speech.
Case: Hongsa Power Plant and Mining Project The Hongsa project is a coal plant and mining project in Xayaboury Province, Laos, that includes a lignite coal mine,...
Case: Kiobel v. Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP A continued search for justice: Shell’s alleged complicity in torture and executions is challenged in the Netherlands. When the Ogoni...
Case: Maxima Acuña-Atalaya v. Newmont Mining A family’s struggle against one of the world’s biggest mining companies. The Chaupe family, including Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Máxima Acuña-Atalaya...
Case: Maynas v. Occidental Petroleum A Legacy of Harm: Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon take Occidental Petroleum to Court. In 2007, EarthRights International brought...
Case: Norperuano Pipeline Contamination A pipeline in the northernmost Peruvian Amazon has been spilling oil and contaminating communities for 50 years. The pipeline is...
Case: Oxfam America v. Securities and Exchange Commission Forcing the Securities and Exchange Commission to implement the U.S. extractive transparency law. When the U.S. Congress passed Section 1504...
Case: Shwe Gas Project The Shwe Gas Project is a large scale natural gas project stretching from the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar to...