Wednesday, November 14, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Climate change lawsuit on hold
By Andrew Selsky
Associated Press
SALEM (AP) — A law-
suit by a group of young
Americans, which asserts the
U.S. government is harm-
ing them by having created
a national energy system
that causes climate change,
is on hold again after a fed-
eral appeals court Thursday
granted the Trump administra-
tion’s motion for a temporary
stay.
The Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals gave the parties
15 days to respond to the
administration’s petition for a
writ of mandamus—a rarely
used judicial appeal that asks
a higher court to overrule a
lower one before the conclu-
sion of a case.
The constitutional climate
lawsuit was brought by 21
young Americans in 2015 and
is supported by Our Children’s
Trust. Trial was supposed to
have begun in federal court
in Eugene, Oregon, in late
October but was delayed
when the U.S. Supreme Court
temporarily put the trial on
hold. Then, on November 2,
the Supreme Court declined
to stop the lawsuit but told the
Trump administration that the
government can still petition a
lower court to dismiss the case
as the government had asked
the high court to do.
The case was brought by
21 young people, aged 11 to
22, who argue that govern-
ment officials have known for
more than 50 years that car-
bon pollution from fossil fuels
was causing climate change
and that policies on oil and
gas deprive them of life, lib-
erty and property.
“Given the urgency of
climate change, we hope the
Ninth Circuit will recog-
nize the importance to these
young Americans of having a
prompt trial date,” said Philip
Gregory, co-counsel for the
young plaintiffs.
U.S. District Judge Ann
Aiken met in Eugene with
the parties Thursday and indi-
cated she would promptly
set a trial date once the
appeals court lifts its tempo-
rary stay, according to Meg
Ward, a spokeswoman for the
plaintiffs.
The young plaintiffs also
accuse the government of
failing to protect natural
resources as a “public trust”
for future generations. The
lawsuit wants a court to order
the government to take action
to quickly phase out carbon
dioxide emissions to a certain
level by 2100 and develop
a national climate recovery
plan.
The federal government,
under both the Obama and
Trump administrations, has
tried repeatedly to get the case
dismissed. Trump administra-
tion lawyers have argued that
the lawsuit seeks to direct fed-
eral environmental and energy
policies through the courts
instead of through the politi-
cal process.
Lawyers for the youths
say evidence should be heard
at trial and that the case
shouldn’t be dismissed before
then.
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