Brian Lairr on WNYC. It's day five of Climate Week NYC. Time to coincide with world leaders

gathering here for the annual UN General Assembly and the UN's Climate Ambition Summit,

which took place yesterday. The Brian Lairr show, as some of you know, is doing a segment

every day this week for Climate Week NYC in conjunction with covering climate now, the media

collaboration that includes this show and WNYC, covering climate now also announced its 2023

Journalism Award winners. Those awards recognize outstanding coverage of the Climate

Emergency and its solutions. We're having the winners on on various programs of ours on this

show this week. And today, in this series, we'll turn to a new powerful tool that activists

are using to try to mitigate the impact of climate change and hold governments and private companies

accountable, the law. On this show, again, as some of you know, we've covered a landmark climate

case from Montana recently, where Judd's decided that that state has to take into account

climate change impacts whenever it weighs future fossil fuel projects and how it may provide a

roadmap for climate change law in New York State, too. And in California, a major oil producing

state and the fifth largest economy in the world, on Friday, they became the first oil producing

state. And you don't think about California necessarily as an oil producing state like you might

think of Montana or Alaska or somewhere, but they are. And California, as of Friday,

became the first oil producing state to file suit against five major oil companies for knowing

and then lying about how the fact that their products cause climate change affects the world.

But these types of climate lawsuits are happening all over the world. And that's part of what we're

going to draw attention to now. They're happening in the UK. They're happening in the Netherlands.

They're happening in Brazil. They're happening in Pakistan. Amanda Burrell, executive producer and

correspondent for Al Jazeera English, their series Earthrise, explored some of these lawsuits

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