"A federal district court in Montana Wednesday granted the Trump administration's request to toss out a youth-led lawsuit challenging the administration's efforts to increase the extraction and use of fossil fuels and other actions that suppress climate science and undermine renewable energy. While the court found it plausible that these actions would cause grave harm to the health and wellbeing of children, it determined that it is powerless to stop them, as that would tread into the realm of policymaking reserved for Congress."
"In making its determination, the court followed what it viewed as binding precedent from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in the landmark Juliana v. United States youth climate case that courts could not provide the plaintiffs' requested relief to alleviate the harms of climate change. The Oct. 15 decision in the most recent case, Lighthiser v. Trump, comes after the court held a two-day hearing in mid-September that featured live testimony from some of the youth plaintiffs and six expert witnesses, including climate scientists, doctors, economists and renewable energy experts. It was the first time in U.S. history that a federal court heard live testimony in a youth climate lawsuit."
A federal district court in Montana granted the Trump administration's request to dismiss a youth-led climate lawsuit alleging increased fossil fuel extraction and actions that suppress climate science and renewable energy. The court acknowledged that those actions could plausibly cause grave harm to children's health and wellbeing but concluded it lacked authority to order relief because doing so would intrude on policymaking powers reserved for Congress. The court relied on 9th Circuit precedent from Juliana v. United States. The Oct. 15 decision followed a two-day hearing that included live testimony from youth plaintiffs and six expert witnesses.
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