The US saw the most lawsuits, but battles over the dismantling of climate policy are also emerging in other countries.

Sweeping revisions to U.S. climate policy in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term have spawned a wave of protective litigation, legal challenges aimed not at advancing new climate goals but at preventing the rollbacks of existing regulation and preserving hard-won legal gains. The challenges to the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks, funding freezes and dismantling…

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