Teenagers Defeat Trumps Move to Kill Climate Change Lawsuit

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Teenagers Defeat Trump’s Move to Kill Climate Change Lawsuit
By Kartikay Mehrotra
March 7, 2018, 1:09 PM EST Updated on March 7, 2018, 5:46 PM EST


A group of 21 youths who accuse the U.S. government of failing for decades to properly address climate change defeated the Trump administration’s attempt to keep the dispute out of court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that a novel and sweeping case, which the Obama administration first tried to extinguish in 2016, can proceed toward a trial. Trump’s Justice Department is expected to ask the Supreme Court to shut it down.

The group of mostly teenagers in Oregon alleged in a 2015 complaint that government policies have exacerbated global warming in violation of their rights -- and those of future generations -- under the U.S. Constitution.

They claim that for more than 50 years, the office of the president and eight federal agencies promoted regulations to support the U.S. energy industry’s proliferation of fossil fuels, accounting for a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions. They asked the court to force the government to formulate a formal plan to change course.

The Trump administration argued the case is based on “utterly unprecedented legal theories” and that it’s unreasonable to delve into “unbounded” research into the executive branch dating back to the Lyndon Johnson presidency.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-07/youths-defeat-trump-s-move-to-kill-climate-change-lawsuit

[Maraya1969]

1. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Creating an environment

where the health of its citizens is ignored for political reasons could be unconstitutional. Additionally, being dependent on foreign oil, especially when the technology exists that we don't have to be, is a national security threat.

Just guessing

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. So far the DOJ hasn't been winning much.

Let's hope this pattern continues.

[malaise]

3. Most excellent

Rec