[All] Landmark Climate Change Case

[Carole Clinch]

Judge Denies Motions by Fossil Fuel Industry and Federal Government in
Landmark Climate Change Case
http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/09/climate-change-case/

U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin of the Federal District Court in
Eugene, Oregon, decided
<http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/04/judge_greenlights_oregon_clima.html>
in
favor of 21 young plaintiffs in their landmark constitutional climate change
<http://ecowatch.com/?s=Our+Children%27s+Trust+eugene> case against the
federal government. Judge Coffin ruled Friday against the motion to
dismiss brought
by the fossil fuel industry and federal government
<http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/14/youth-climate-change-lawsuit/>.

The court’s ruling
<http://ourchildrenstrust.org/sites/default/files/16.04.08.OrderDenyingMTD.pdf>
is a major victory for the 21 youth plaintiffs, ages 8-19, from across the
U.S. in what Bill McKibben <http://ecowatch.com/author/bmckibben/> and
Naomi Klein call the “most important lawsuit on the planet right now.”

These plaintiffs sued the federal government for violating their
constitutional rights to life, liberty and property, and their right to
essential public trust resources, by permitting, encouraging and otherwise
enabling continued exploitation, production and combustion of fossil fuels.

...

This will be the trial of the century that will determine if we have a
right to a livable future, or if corporate power will continue to deny our
rights for the sake of their own wealth.”
...
the federal government and the fossil fuel industry who denied any duty
under the constitution or the public trust doctrine to protect essential
natural resources, such as air and oceans, for the benefit of all present
and future generations.

...
the climate rights that will now be decided in this case, cannot be
vindicated by future generations.”
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