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Youth Activists Push Hawai’i To Accelerate Net Zero Transportation Policies

June 24, 2024 admin clean transport, earthjustice, green economy, Hawaii, our children's trust, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:58:34 +0000

Our Children’s Trust is back in the news after the resolution of a climate suit in Hawai’i. The organization is comprised of attorneys who are bringing legal actions against states and the federal government in an attempt to force them to address the crisis of a warming planet in an … [continued]

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9th Circuit Court Rules Against Young Plaintiffs In Landmark Climate Suit

January 19, 2020 admin climate change, courts, julia olson, levi draheim, our children's trust, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, Supreme Court

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:40:39 +0000

In 2015, a group of young Americans, some of them only 7 or 8 years old, sued the United States government, claiming the federal government “through its affirmative actions in creating a national energy system that causes climate change, is depriving them of their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, and has failed to protect essential public trust resources.” That’s according to Our Children’s Trust, which is sponsoring the suit. The “public trust” theory was first conceived by OCT attorney Julia Olson