Posted on 05/15/2024 2:51:32 PM PDT by KingofZion
After a federal judge dismissed a landmark climate lawsuit filed by 18 California children against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the youth plaintiffs plan to amend and resubmit their allegations, their attorneys say.
The children — who have lost homes in wildfires, suffered health problems from breathing polluted air, missed weeks of education due to climate change-related school closures and been forced to ration tap water due to unprecedented droughts — sued the EPA for allegedly violating their constitutional rights by allowing pollution from burning fossil fuels to continue despite knowing the harm it poses to kids.
Judge Michael Fitzgerald of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California this month ruled the plaintiffs lacked legal standing to bring the suit because they did not show how the remedies they sought — including a declaratory judgment that their constitutional rights have been violated — would mitigate those harms.
The lawsuit — Genesis B. vs. EPA, filed in December on behalf of plaintiffs ages 8 to 17 at the time — calls climate change “the single greatest driver of the health of every child born today.” It alleges that the EPA has intentionally allowed the United States to become one of the world’s biggest contributors to the crisis, despite issuing report after report detailing its harms, particularly to children.
When the EPA runs economic analyses to decide how much pollution to permit going forward, it assigns less value to the lives of children because they aren’t income earners, the plaintiffs’ attorneys say. The agency also applies discount rates that place less value on the future benefits of controlling pollution than the present ones, according to the attorneys, who say these practices discriminate against children.
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Their parents? No mention of parents.
Their lawyers? Who is paying or if pro bono what affiliations?
Lots of questions here.
it’s not KIDS — its abusive adults and sleazy lawyers and money money money.
Not a Feinstein fan but this was THE BEST!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIebWywFfNw
And that teacher needs to tarred and feathered for terrorizing those children.
Climate terrorists, trans terrorists - our future is destroyed by these monsters.
Don’t like the Forest Fires move out of California
Don’t like the forest fires, elect a governor who’s not an idiot.
Another case of climate lawfare bites the dust. Children have NO STANDING to sue the EPA and government officials for ‘not doing enough’ to end climate change. I could say we told you so...okay, why not...WE TOLD YOU SO.
This is one of the biggest reasons to oppose the climate extremists...they do not believe in the legal or political process. They seek to have black robed dictators enforce their views, rather than go the correct route through the legislative process. These people are dangerous.
Its called the political question doctrine. You’re supposed to throw cases like this out of court right away.
If it were up to me, you’d also sanction the lawyer who files the case for filing a frivolous pleading.
These little bastards should have to live in the society they’re asking for.
Too bad that they would drag us all down with them.
Nothing new, kids filing lawsuits across the nation...
Next to sexual abuse, this is another form of abuse.
Some lawyers are getting rich off these kids.
missed weeks of education due to climate change-related school closures and been forced to ration tap water due to unprecedented droughts — sued the EPA for allegedly violating their constitutional rights by allowing pollution from burning fossil fuels to continue despite knowing the harm it poses to kids.
They might as well sue the Sun. But, in California, suing the EPA might get them a payday.
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