[Lekooks] Earth Guardians climate change lawsuit gets a trial date.

[Liz Kreml]

I was so distracted by Tesla's first model 3 being produced I missed this.
It's huge!

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.

On June 28, 2017, Judge Coffin issued an order
<https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20170728-Order-Granting-Motions-to-Withdraw-Setting-Trial-Date.pdf>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!

(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.)

Green text is from their site.
https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit

There's more info in this article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/05/__trashed/

Liz
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