Here’s today’s stories of progress in the fight against climate change.

⚖️ A step forward for legal climate action

While the case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy giant RWE has been dismissed, the door has been left open for future trials that rest on the ‘polluter pays’ principle. Saúl Luciano Lliuya was attempting to get RWE to pay up for damages related to its historic emissions, but the case was thrown out because the risk of flooding to his home was not deemed sufficient for compensation. However, in a groundbreaking precedent, the court stated that companies can indeed be held financially responsible for their emissions.

💨 The Republicans who love wind power

Most Republicans in Texas don’t support Trump’s attack on wind turbines – and are fighting against a slew of bills that could curb their installation, even on private land. The economic opportunities that turbines provide are central to the appeal of wind power: clean energy projects will provide more than $12bn in taxes to Texas’s communities, helping to pay for schools, roads, and hospitals – plus a further $15bn that goes in the pockets of the landowners.

⛏️ Mining with carbon

Injecting captured carbon dioxide into the earth could be a more sustainable way of mining nickel, a key metal for the energy transition. At the same time, the CO2 would be turned into its mineral form, allowing it to be stored underground forever. A cubic kilometre of ultramafic rock – which occurs near the surface of the earth – could produce half a million tonnes of nickel and 21,000 tonnes of cobalt, and store 100m tonnes of CO2.

The Green Light is written by freelance climate writer Molly Millar.