Washington, DC (February 19, 2025) – Nearly two years after 75-year old climate activist Bob Atchinson was given a suspended sentence and fined for protesting the U.S. government's inaction on climate change, his case has been appealed to the United States Supreme Court.

Judge Shelly Mulkey of the D.C. Superior Court today sentenced two Declare Emergency supporters with time served and $500.00 fines. Both Ms. Wehner and Mr. Severance said they are acting in self defense against a government that is condemning people in this country and around the world to death, to poverty, to oil fueled wars.

Judge Jones Bosier convicted a supporter of the Declare Emergency campaign with incommoding for blocking the Rock Creek Parkway west of the Watergate Complex in Washington DC on Jan. 25th, 2022.

Six Declare Emergency Supporters Sentenced to Jail for stopping traffic on the beltway in Montgomery County on Indigenous People’s Day. Judge Koch handed down sentences of 4 days, $500 fines, and one year of probation.

Judge Shelly Mulkey of the D.C. Superior Court today allowed two Declare Emergency supporters to present the climate necessity defense. This is only the ninth time since 2008 that a U.S. court has allowed climate protest defendants to present the necessity defense, out of roughly 37 attempts, according to a 2021 Climate Defense Project report.

A Declare Emergency supporter pleaded guilty to blocking the inner loop of the beltway in Montgomery County, Maryland. The judge sentenced him to an unprecedented 60 days.