Our Children’s Trust is back in the news after the resolution of a climate suit in Hawai’i. The organization is comprised of attorneys who are bringing legal actions against states and the federal government in an attempt to force them to address the crisis of a warming planet in an … [continued]
In 2015, a group of young Americans, some of them only 7 or 8 years old, sued the United States government, claiming the federal government “through its affirmative actions in creating a national energy system that causes climate change, is depriving them of their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, and has failed to protect essential public trust resources.” That’s according to Our Children’s Trust, which is sponsoring the suit. The “public trust” theory was first conceived by OCT attorney Julia Olson.
A report from the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health finds that young people are most at risk for impaired physical and mental health as a result of air pollution. If we won’t protect our planet, can we at least protect our kids?
The US Supreme Court on Friday declined to dismiss the Juliana Vs US climate change lawsuit brought by Our Children’s Trust. It’s a victory for the young plaintiffs but it may be years before the case actually goes to trial.
Three farmers and Greenpeace have sued the German government, alleging it is not doing enough to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals it set in 2007. Will German courts do what US courts refuse to do?
The US Justice Department has filed an emergency request that asks the Supreme Court to throw out the trial date for Juliana vs. US, the climate change law suit that argues the government has a duty to protect its citizens from environmental harm.
Climate advocates James Hansen and Bill McKibben are still committed to effective policies that will address global warming. One is pessimistic while one is cautiously optimistic.
Staring down the barrel of a hotter, drier, more turbulent world, the next generation of American leaders is eager to find a solution to climate change, and they are agitating for progress in the courts and on the streets. Their passion is a testament to the fact that, sooner or later, we are destined to end its love affair with fossil fuels.
ThinkProgress has obtained a long buried video taken in 1998 that shows the head of Mobil Oil admitting that greenhouse gases are a global problem. Which raises this question: So what?
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has slapped down the Trump Administration’s last ditch attempt to delay the novel climate change lawsuit brought by 21 young plaintiffs and Our Children’s Trust.
