When a judge threw out a lawsuit this week accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution, it was a major setback for a group of young people trying to fight climate change in the courts.
But the ruling had a silver lining. The judge also said the plaintiffs had successfully argued that climate change constitutes a “children’s health emergency.”
Legal experts said that language reinforced a yearslong strategy by an organization called Our Children’s Trust, a public-interest law firm, to put children and young people in the courtroom and on the stand to argue that governments should do more to rein in global warming.
Daniel Metzger, a senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, said the judge’s opinion offered “very detailed guidance for designing cases that can overcome the challenges this one faced.”
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