The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 05, 2019, 04:02:42 pm
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Judge tosses kids’ lawsuit against Trump climate policies
By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.|April 1st, 2019
Rejecting a claim by Philadelphia-based Clean Air Council and attorneys representing two Pennsylvania school boys that people have a constitutionally guaranteed due process right to a “life-sustaining climate,†a federal Judge has dismissed a bizarre legal case challenging the Trump administration’s climate policies.
In his Fen. 19 decision, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Diamond said the plaintiffs lacked standing. And in dismissing the case, Clean Air Council v. United States, Judge Diamond granted the request by President Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, and other administration officials.
The case dates to November 2017 when the two boys, aged 7 and 11 at the time, attributed their respective ailments, severe allergies and asthma, to Trump administration policies rolling back Obama-era climate initiatives. Judge Diamond showed little patience with plaintiffs willing to clog up an already overburdened court system with an issue that was best dealt with outside the judicial sphere.
https://www.cfact.org/2019/04/01/judge-tosses-kids-lawsuit-against-trump-climate-policies/ (https://www.cfact.org/2019/04/01/judge-tosses-kids-lawsuit-against-trump-climate-policies/)