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ls4ca.org | Holding the legal industry accountable for its role in the climate crisis | Building a legal industry committed to a just, livable future

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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌱 📚️ 📢 Apply by Oct 1st to be a Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA) ⚡️ Regional Coordinator⚡️ for California, the Rockies, or the Southeast! No prior involvement in LSCA required; time commitment is approximately 2 hours / week. Apply here ➡️ forms.gle/6CwTjgyUdhxR...
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🌎⚖️ Join Law Students for Climate Accountability, Steven Donziger + Amy Westervelt for a conversation on climate justice, corporate power & the fight for accountability during New York Climate Week! 🗓️ Friday, September 25 ⏰ 3:00 - 4:30PM 📍 NYU Law REGISTER ➡️ linktr.ee/ls4ca
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🌱 🔊 Join LSCA for our first webinar of the academic year, a career panel featuring LSCA alumni! Come to learn about paths outside of big law, and ask questions to alumni who have navigated careers in environmental public interest work. 🗓️ bit.ly/climate-careers-panel
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
✏️ As the first in this year's Law Students for Climate Accountability's Legal Legacies series, we're proud to share: "How 10+ Years of Coal Terminal Litigation Revealed the Limits of City Government Legal Power — and the Durability of Community Resistance". Read here: bit.ly/no-coal-in-oakland
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Introducing some of the faces behind the fight for climate accountability across US law schools ⚖️ 🌎️ Scroll through to meet some of the members, representing law schools across the country, and why they're in this fight! #LSCA #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateLaw #EnvironmentalLaw
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NYC Climate Week is fast approaching, and we're looking forward to discussing Big Oil's attempts to achieve formal impunity - and what we can do to stop them. Hope to see you there, alongside our friends at @ClimateIntegrity.org @UCS.org and many others fighting for a liveable future.
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
767 farmers died by suicide in Maharashtra in just 3 months of 2025. The same region mines the coal driving the climate crisis behind their failing harvests. Our new piece looks at how India's courts, regulators, and law firms keep protecting polluters — while farmers are left to bear the cost.
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The Asymmetry of Climate Change: How Industries are Protected and Farmers Marginalised in India — Law Students for Climate Accountability
767 farmers died by suicide in Maharashtra in just three months of 2025. In the same region, coal mines are driving the climate crisis behind their failing harvests. Our new piece looks at how…
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
NEW BLOG: Read our newest piece by rising 2L Kerrie Roan, highlighting the role lawyers play in militarization & environmental harm, from Gaza to Iran. The next generation must decide whether to help preserve the systems producing these harms or work to dismantle them. www.ls4ca.org/blog-show-al...
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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Law firms are particularly bad climate actors: under the radar, they enable Big Oil in a massive way More reading: @lsca.bsky.social 's 6th annual Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard 2025. Link: www.ls4ca.org/scorecard Video: Episode 46 of my Angry Clean Energy Guy show: youtu.be/5mSsIAABXTo?...
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Scorecard — Law Students for Climate Accountability
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🌍 Call for Research Volunteers! Law Students for Climate Accountability is recruiting research volunteers for the 2026 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard. 🗓 Training: mid-January 2026 📊 Research: February–March 👉 Apply here: actionnetwork.org/forms/lsca-2...
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Introducing some of the faces behind climate accountability across US law schools ⚖️🌿 Together, we’re redefining what it means to be a lawyer for the planet. Scroll through to meet some of the members of LSCA's US National Board, representing law schools from across the country! #ClimateJustice
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Oscar Davison @pipelineh8r.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Last night, I had the pleasure of participating in the @lsca.bsky.social Global Day of Action, presenting some of the Australian Team’s preliminary findings regarding the work Australian Law firms do that exacerbates climate change. Report anticipated in early 2026 🌳🫡
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We're excited to hear from Dr. James Dyke of Exeter University's Global Systems Institute in 15 minutes about barriers to climate progress and how to overcome them!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We're heading to Germany to learn about critical minerals from CLIC; join us at the top of the hour! actionnetwork.org/events/join-...
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Next up: LSCA Australia!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We're excited to hear from organizers working with frontline communities in the Philippines. Join LSCA and Mindanao Climate Justice in 15 minutes! Register at: actionnetwork.org/events/join-...
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join us in 15 minutes as we head to India for a conversation on the intersection of a just transition and animal law and welfare with NALSAR University of Law's Animal Law Centre!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We're looking forward to a discussion about the rights of workers and frontline communities, hosted by students from UC Irvine's Environmental Law Clinic and starting in 15 minutes at 5pm pacific!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join us in 15 minutes to hear from members of Greenpeace International's legal team about their work! Register at: actionnetwork.org/events/join-...
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Next stop: Perú!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
At 5:30 eastern, a collaborative effort at the University of Melbourne will bring together an international panel to discuss the energy and food sectors.
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Next up: a panel discussion hosted by Cornell's Environmental Law Society!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Únete a nosotros para una presentación en español en quince minutos!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
For hour 6, we head to Brasil - hi to all our friends in Belém for COP!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hour 5 is nearly here! Join to hear about a new effort to build a first of its kind worldwide network of environmental law clinics.
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We'll continue our stop in the UK during hour 4, starting soon, with Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland's Fossil Free Law campaign!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
During hour 3, we'll hear from a variety of experts on different aspects of a just transition, presented by students at York!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hour 2 starts in 15 minutes! Join Refugee Law Initiative for a conversation about legal frameworks for refugees and climate migration. The full schedule for our 25 hour Zoom around the world is available on the registration page.
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our World's Longest Day of Action event starts in one hour! Join us as we introduce Law Students for Climate Accountability and members of our new South African team. The full schedule for our 25 hour Zoom around the world is available on the registration page.
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
On Monday, we're going around the world in 25 hours! We're looking forward to learning about different elements of a just transition away from fossil fuels. Click the first link in our linktree to see the schedule and register! linktr.ee/ls4ca
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
On Monday, we're going around the world in 25 hours! We're looking forward to learning about different elements of a just transition away from fossil fuels. Click the first link in our linktree to see the schedule and register! linktr.ee/ls4ca
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People’s Parity Project @peoplesparity.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Lawyers & democracy defenders are taking to the streets on Saturday. Proud to be joined by👇 ✊Ka’sha Bernard, @lsca.bsky.social ✊@douglindner.bsky.social @lcv.org ✊@skennedy2504.myatproto.social,People’s Parity Project, and more 3/3 Don't miss it: actionnetwork.org/events/lawye...
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Lawyers March for Democracy Kickoff
Lawyers March for Democracy As the Supreme Court wraps up its November oral arguments, join fellow attorneys, law students, and legal advocates for a powerful rally outside the Supreme Court to decla...
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Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland @ercscot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
On Monday, ERCS will participate in the Global Day of Action for #ClimateJustice, coinciding with COP30 in Brazil. We will be hosting one hour of @lsca.bsky.social's 25 hr virtual gathering, which will span time zones & connect campaigners across the world. Sign-up now: tinyurl.com/3bmnsw77
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Are you a US law student interested in starting an LSCA chapter at your law school? If so, join us this Sunday, November 9th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET for a meeting with all US Campus reps, old and new. See event page for more details, including the zoom link to join: www.linkedin.com/events/lscac...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
26/ For instance, students are increasingly making vigorous demands for transformational changes to HE curricula. @lsca.bsky.social rejecting courses preparing them for careers in the fossil fuel industry. & MS4SF organizing globally for planetary health to be embedded into med-school curricula
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice. Long 🧵😊
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Introducing the faces behind climate accountability in UK law schools 🇬🇧⚖️ Together, we’re redefining what it means to be a lawyer for the planet. #LSCA #ClimateJustice #FutureOfLaw
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Are you attending the ABA Section on Environment & Energy's (SEER) 33rd fall conference later this week in Arlington, VA? If so, come join LSCA for a happy hour to celebrate the end of the week. All are welcome, no registration needed. Friends of LSCA are encouraged to attend!
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Join us! If you are interested in contributing to moving the legal industry from exacerbating climate change to meaningfully supporting a just transition, great news! LSCA is looking for Campus Representatives to serve as a liaison between us and their student bodies! Apply through linktr.ee/ls4ca !
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Disasters don’t happen in a vacuum, legal systems play a big role in making them worse. 🌪️⚖️ LSCA's newest blog outlines the role that the legal industry plays enabling fossil-fueled disasters, such as the tragic the summer 2025 floods in Texas. Read it here: www.ls4ca.org/blog-show-al...
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Law Students for Climate Accountability @lsca.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Will you be at the 34th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite from October 16-19 in California? If so, the brand new LSCA California Network is planning a walk/hike at Mirror Lake Trailhead at 1pm PT on Saturday, October 18th! We would love to see you there!
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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Rising 3L Ben Shipman helped launch UC Berkeley Law’s chapter of Law Students for Climate Accountability (@lsca.bsky.social) and is now coordinating their first international convening of lawyers, students, and academics to push the legal industry toward a just transition away from fossil fuels.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14/05/2025
7/7 You can take action now. Tell your state attorney general and governor that you support holding the fossil fuel industry accountable:
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Tell Your State Attorney General You Support Holding the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable
A new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists outlines the case against major fossil fuel companies for climate fraud and damages. Write to your state attorney general in support of climate accoun...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14/05/2025
6/7 UCS is calling for elected officials, investors, financiers, experts & the public to increase pressure on fossil fuel companies to stop lying and obstructing science-informed policy, pay an equitable share of the costs for climate damages, and advance a fair and fast phaseout of fossil fuels.
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Climate Accountability: The Antidote to Decades of Fossil Fuel Industry Deceit
Who’s most responsible for our current climate crisis? The Trump administration surely deserves vocal condemnation for undermining and reversing the steps we urgently need to take to build a climate-r...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14/05/2025
5/7 The fossil fuel industry spent more than $150 million to lobby the federal government in 2024. Keep that in mind as we witness the havoc wreaked on the environment and public health by a federal administration captured by fossil fuel industry interests.
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Fossil Fuel Lobbying: 100+ Days and Six Decades of Deception
As a new report drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence shows, one institution is conducting business as usual: the fossil fuel industry.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14/05/2025
2/7 Just 122 companies are responsible for more than 94% of all industrial CO2 emissions since 1959 and 75% since 1981 - time frames in which they had clear scientific evidence that their products were contributing to climate change.
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The Damning Records the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to See
Fossil fuel companies foresaw the devastating impacts of climate change more than 60 years ago.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14/05/2025
1/7 Check out a new UCS report, "Decades of Deceit: The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages." Drawing on dozens of internal industry documents, it provides a decades-long review of the fossil fuel industry's campaign of disinformation and delay on climate action:
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Decades of Deceit
Why the case against the major fossil fuel companies for fraud and climate damages is so strong.
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Jon Hanson @thesituationist.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Whatever you think of SCOTUS or of BigLaw (e.g., Jones Day & Gibson Dunn each earn an "F" from @lsca.bsky.social), some firms are doing invaluable work before the Court. Kudos to Gupta Wessler, working “to shape the law to enhance justice and improve people’s lives.”
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