WRITTEN BY KEVIN KILLOUGH ON JAN 9, 2024. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
As Climate Lawfare Heats Up, Concerns Grow Over Impartiality Of Judges
protest homework laterA federal judge in Oregon denied a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss a climate-change-based lawsuit, explaining in her ruling that climate change poses such a dire risk to mankind and the court is “duty-bound to provide redress for the irreparable harm government fossil fuel promotion has caused.” [emphasis, links added]
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge of Oregon Ann Aiken, a Bill Clinton nominee, contains a number of statements that express sympathy with the view that climate change is posing a threat to the human race so great that a judicial response is warranted to address the plaintiffs argument that the government, by allowing and promoting fossil fuel development, is violating their rights.
Climate activists across the country have launched dozens of these cases holding government agencies, oil companies, and industry groups liable for injuries the activists claim to suffer as a result of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/as-climate-lawfare-heats-up-concerns-grow-over-impartiality-of-judges/
