In a bit of good news this week, a US district judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by
21 children and young adults here in the United States against both the Obama and the Trump
administrations is going to be allowed to go to trial towards the end of this month.
Now, this lawsuit specifically, this is the one that was brought by the group, Our Children's
Trust, on behalf of the 21 children and young adults, it was actually filed back in 2015.
This very week, a US district judge, after years of challenges and both administrations
attempting to get these lawsuits dismissed, this week the last judge, the last hurdle
to crawl over, finally said, "Yes, you have presented enough evidence to show that the
administrations, the federal government under both the Democrat and the Republican, were
required to do something about climate change and failed to do it.
You have done your job and presented enough evidence so that we can confidently take this
to a jury trial and let them decide what action should or should not be taken."
Now, the reason this is such a big deal is because over the last few months, we have
seen a lot of climate change lawsuits being thrown out of courts.
All of those were ones that were brought by cities, or states, or municipalities against
oil companies saying that they're responsible for the sea level rise and the other climate
catastrophes that those areas were facing as a result of climate change and the emissions
from those companies.
This one, the one brought by Our Children's Trust, the oldest one out there, is different.
It's different in a good way, in a way that actually might make it succeed, because what
they're arguing is that the federal government has an obligation, they have a duty to protect
people, citizens, coastlines, from the effects of climate change, and they have failed.
Both the Obama administration and the Trump administration have failed to do so, thereby
basically creating a dereliction of duty here.
The judge said, "Yes, you've made your point.
You've presented enough evidence to show that you can make this argument.
You're going to take it to trial now."
Now, it's important to point out that these lawsuits are no specifically against Barack
Obama himself or Donald Trump himself.
These lawsuits, though they list both people, are against the federal government itself.
It's just that when they were filed, Obama was in charge, and now Trump is in charge.
Those two individuals have nothing to worry about from this particular lawsuit.
They do, however, have to worry about their legacy because at one point, back in 2016
when Obama was still in charge and a lot of people still think he was great on the environment,
but if you look at the record, really not, his DOJ actually argued in their attempt to
get this case thrown out in 2016 that you don't have a right to breathe not polluted
air.
That's what they argued.
They argued that in front of a judge saying, "You don't have a right to a pollution-free
environment."
That is the direct quote that they said to a judge, and that came from the Obama administration.
Now, obviously, what we have seen from the Trump administration has been a hell of a
lot worse than that.
But let's not give people a free pass when they don't deserve one.
This lawsuit is absolutely necessary because, if anything, the last few years have shown
us that the fossil fuel companies are always going to win no matter what party happens
to be controlling the White House.
The only chance we have to get any kind of meaningful action on climate change at this
point is going to be coming from the judiciary.
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