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Topic: Youth
Author: Ashland.news
Title: Ashland High School students walk out to demand climate accountability, protest ICE actions
Takeaway: "Organized by Rogue Climate, a Southern Oregon nonprofit, the students marched from the high school to Ashland Plaza, in part to urge Oregon lawmakers to pass the Climate Resilience Superfund bill in the 2026 Oregon Legislative Session, which begins Monday, Feb. 2. The bill would require the largest out-of-state fossil fuel companies to pay for the climate damages caused by their emissions between 1994 and 2024."

Topic: Court Cases
Author: E&E News By Politico
Title: 5 climate court battles to watch in 2026
Takeaway: “The legal fights come as the scope of climate litigation expanded in 2025. An Oregon woman accused the oil and gas industry of contributing to her mother’s death during a heat wave. Washington state homeowners filed a landmark lawsuit against oil majors arguing that climate change has caused more frequent and intense natural disasters, leading insurance premiums to rise."

Topic: Innovation
Author: Environmental Justice Foundation
Title: CCTV at sea could dramatically reduce illegal fishing and human rights abuses: new report
Takeaway: "The report finds that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is routinely linked to violence, intimidation and forced labour. The chronic lack of independent oversight on fishing vessels, particularly in distant-water and high seas fisheries, enables this"
 

Posted by LCPWDJH On February 06, 2026 at 3:46 PM  

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