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To: James Seagrove who wrote (254)11/4/2018 10:41:20 AM
From: ryanaka  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 853
 
"Why"


Warning2: James Seagrove, stop posting Eugenics posts that have nothing to do with climate change unless somehow you can prove their connection.



To: James Seagrove who wrote (254)11/4/2018 10:46:14 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 853
 
That explains why Trump had Cohen manage his affairs. How did that work out? I've heard rumors it was a hot and stormy summer.

Young Activists Can Sue Government Over Climate Change, Supreme Court Says
November 3, 20182:12 PM ET

JACOB PINTER


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The climate change lawsuit inspired this rally in Seattle, along with ones in Portland and Eugene, Ore.

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A group of young people can sue the federal government over its climate change policies, the Supreme Court said Friday. Since it was first filed in 2015, the government has requested several times that Juliana v. United States be dismissed.

"I want to trust that we are truly on track for trial without having further delays," Kelsey Juliana, a 22-year-old plaintiff, said in a statement, "but these defendants are treating this case, our democracy, and the security of mine and future generations like it's a game. I'm tired of playing this game."

The Department of Justice did not respond to NPR's request for comment.

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The lawsuit — brought by 21 plaintiffs, many of whom are minors, in U.S. district court in Eugene, Ore. — claims the federal government encouraged the production of oil, gas and other fossil fuels, causing the planet to warm and infringing on several of the plaintiffs' fundamental rights. It lists examples that the government knew the Earth was warming as early as 1965, and it requests a court order for the government to decrease carbon dioxide emissions as well as the creation of a national plan to "restore Earth's energy balance" and "stabilize the climate system."

Leigh-Ann Draheim, whose son Levi, 11, is the youngest plaintiff, said the case was based in part on the public trust doctrine."The breadth of respondents' claims is striking," the Supreme Court had said in an earlier court order. But it said the claims should not be dismissed before going to trial.

"People have the right to running water, clean water" and clean air, Draheim told NPR. "And then there's also the amendment with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. One's life is at risk with health and with having to leave our home."

The trial had previously been scheduled to start Oct. 29. The group Our Children's Trust, which has provided support for the plaintiffs, said it had requested a status conference to set a new trial date.

It now could start as early as mid-November, Draheim said.

"I loved the environment and I love to be outside," Levi, the plaintiff, said. "And when I realized there was such a thing called climate change, I realized that I need to do something about it."

At a rally in Eugene on Monday — the day the trial had been scheduled to start — Levi explained why climate change in particular had struck a chord.

"I have personally had to evacuate my home because of hurricanes," he said, according to Rachael McDonald of member station KLCC. "I've seen fish kills on my beach and I have seen changing weather and more and more hot days."

"A lot of people say, 'Why don't you just recycle or ride your bike more?' And he does all that," Draheim said. "It's not working, it's not good enough to just get individuals to do individual small things. We need to as a country do much bigger things."Levi — who was 8 when the lawsuit was first filed — and his mother have been involved in local environmental activism in their home of Satellite Beach, Fla., she said.

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