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Posted Sat Apr 26 2014: from The Nation:
Youth Are Taking the Government to Court Over Its Failure to Address Climate Change http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1398481791
In an unprecedented federal court case that has made it to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, young people from California are suing the EPA and Departments of Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Energy and Defense under the historic public trust doctrine for failing to devise a climate change recovery plan. In their legal brief, they argue, "Failure to rapidly reduce CO2 emissions and protect and restore the balance of the atmosphere is a violation of Youth's constitutionally protected rights and is redressable by the Courts."... Conventional efforts to harness climate change through litigation have failed. The public's trust in government to tackle climate change has been squashed. The agencies the youth are suing have come up short on the issue of the millennium. We're clearly in need of some precedent-setting litigation.
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