Thursday, March 8, 2018

Trump fails to evade climate change lawsuit filed by 21 youths

21 young people have been taking on the United States government over climate change in the lawsuit Juliana v. U.S. since 2015, and President Donald Trump attempted to dodge them. The plaintiffs just won a victory: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled the case can indeed move towards a trial, Bloomberg reported. 21-year-old plaintiff Kiran Oommen said in a statement, "The question of the last few years has not been 'do we have a case' but rather 'how far will the federal government go to...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/trump-fails-to-evade-climate-change-lawsuit-filed-by-21-youths
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