<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I was so distracted by Tesla's first model 3 being produced I missed this. It's huge!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:futura-pt;font-size:19px;letter-spacing:0.4px;background-color:rgb(32,52,59)">Their complaint asserts that, through the government's affirmative actions that cause climate change, it has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, as well as failed to protect essential public trust resources.</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:futura-pt;font-size:19px;letter-spacing:0.4px;background-color:rgb(32,52,59)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:futura-pt;font-size:19px;letter-spacing:0.4px;background-color:rgb(32,52,59)">On June 28, 2017, Judge Coffin issued </span><a href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20170728-Order-Granting-Motions-to-Withdraw-Setting-Trial-Date.pdf" style="background:rgb(32,52,59);text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(9,178,157);word-wrap:break-word;font-family:futura-pt;font-size:19px;letter-spacing:0.4px">an order </a><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:futura-pt;font-size:19px;letter-spacing:0.4px;background-color:rgb(32,52,59)">releasing the fossil fuel industry defendants from the case, and setting a trial date for February 5, 2018 before Judge Aiken at the U.S. District Court of Oregon in Eugene. Youth plaintiffs, now age 9 to 21, and their attorneys are now preparing for trial!</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:futura-pt;font-size:19px;letter-spacing:0.4px;background-color:rgb(32,52,59)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto">(Case is now EGs versus just the US government, had been against both ff industry & gov but gov is weaker without them so it's good they were released imho.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Green text is from their site. </div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit">https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There's more info in this article.</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/05/__trashed/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/05/__trashed/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Liz</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>