Twenty-one children, adolescents, and young adults — all between the ages of 11 and 22 — were set to face off against the United States in an Oregon courthouse on Oct. 29.
But instead, the highest court in the land has temporarily halted the unprecedented climate trial after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court — in a 38-page request — to put things on hold.
The young plaintiffs, some still in grammar school, are suing the U.S. government for supporting a national energy system that emits prodigious amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, thus stoking human-caused climate change and endangering their futures. Read more...
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