#ourchildrenstrust — Public Fediverse posts

Aug 19, 2024 report by #OleMiss student Mateos Lozano. "Youth and the State of Hawaiʻi Agree:
More Climate Action Needed” https://nsglc.olemiss.edu/blog/2024/aug/19/index.html.

As a high school student in #Monterey County, Mateos formed a #SunriseMovement chapter in our county seat, Salinas. Mateos has been interning this summer at the National Sea Grant Law Center in Mississippi.
#ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #EarthJustice #OurChildrensTrust #Hawaii

"In a November 2016 order rejecting the government’s initial attempt to dismiss the case, Judge Aiken stated: “I have no doubt that the right to a #climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society.”

In its latest request to terminate the lawsuit, the DOJ argues that no such constitutional right exists."

#OurChildrensTrust #ClimateLawsuit #JulianavUnitedStates
https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/26/doj-federal-government-dismiss-juliana-youth-climate-lawsuit/

"Whether a constitutional right to a healthy, livable #climate is protected by state law is at the center of a lawsuit going to trial Monday in #Montana, where 16 young plaintiffs and their attorneys hope to set an important legal precedent."

"The case was brought in 2020 by attorneys for the environmental group #OurChildrensTrust, which has filed #ClimateLawsuits in every state on behalf of young plaintiffs since 2011."

https://apnews.com/article/youth-climate-trial-montana-18e301a701fcf4badc904984455406fc