Children Lead The Fight Against Climate Change
Children Win Another Climate Change Legal Case In Mass Supreme Court
James Conca, May 19, 2016 (Forbes)
“In another surprising victory for children suing the government over climate change, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court…found in favor of four youth plaintiffs against the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection…The Court found that the DEP was not complying with its legal obligation to reduce the State’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ordered the agency to ‘promulgate regulations that address…greenhouse gas emissions, impose a limit on emissions that may be released…and set limits that decline on an annual basis…’ This case is one of several similar cases in federal district [and state] courts…All of these legal cases are supported by Our Children’s Trust…[T]hese lawsuits claim that a government elected by the people and for the people has a duty to protect the natural systems required for the people’s survival…[and] if both the executive and legislative branches fail in that duty, then the judicial branch must intervene [based on the latest science]…” click here for more
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