Youth Climate Case Headed for U.S. Supreme Court
EUGENE, Oregon, February 10, 2021 (ENS) – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, without explanation, today denied the request of 21 young people to have a full panel of the court hear their climate case against the U.S. Government. “We will now seek review in the U.S. Supreme Court,” declared the plaintiffs’ Eugene-based law firm Our Children’s Trust, because the court did not correct the “significant legal errors made in the January 2020 ruling.”
In this much-watched lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit declined to consider the case in January 2020, ruling in a split decision, that the issue should not be decided in any federal court at all, but by the legislative and executive branches of government.
Teens Press Climate Cases in Courts Across the World
EUGENE, Oregon, January 25, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is worsening by the year, threatening to make the planet unliveable for people now in their teens and early twenties. Because government actions are often at the root of climate warming, young Americans have taken the first legal steps in a youth climate movement to require the government to respect their right to a stable, healthy climate, encouraging similar actions globally.
Today, there are many youth climate cases before courts across the world in which young people are pressing their governments to take actions that will mitigate the effects of climate change.