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\u201c[I]f ever there were a time to recognize through action this right to preservation of a healthful and pleasant atmosphere, the time is now\u201d<\/div>\n
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Location:<\/b><\/div>\n

Seattle, WA<\/p><\/div>\n

Late last night, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis R. Hill issued a groundbreaking ruling in the unprecedented case of eight youth petitioners who requested that the Washington Department of Ecology write a carbon emissions rule that protects the atmosphere for their generation and those to come. <\/p>\n

In a landmark decision, Judge Hill declared \u201c[the youths\u2019] very survival depends upon the will of their elders to act now, decisively and unequivocally, to stem the tide of global warming\u2026before doing so becomes first too costly and then too late.\u201d Highlighting inextricable relationships between navigable waters and the atmosphere, and finding that separating the two is \u201cnonsensical,\u201d the judge found the public trust doctrine mandates that the state act through its designated agency \u201cto protect what it holds in trust.\u201d The court confirmed what the Washington youths and youths across the nation have been arguing in courts of law, that \u201c[t]he state has a constitutional obligation to protect the public\u2019s interest in natural resources held in trust for the common benefit of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredible to have the court finally say that we do have a right to a healthy atmosphere and that our government can\u2019t allow it to be harmed,\u201d said 13-year-old petitioner Gabriel Mandell. \u201cThis ruling means that what the Department of Ecology does going forward in its rulemaking has to protect us, the kids of Washington, and not just us, but future generations too, like my children and those to come. Now they can\u2019t decide to protect short-term economic fears and ignore us because we have constitutional and public trust rights to a stable climate!\u201d<\/p>\n

While validating the youths’ claims that the \u201cscientific evidence is clear that the current rates of reduction mandated by Washington law\u2026cannot ensure the survival of an environment in which [youth] can grow to adulthood safely,\u201d the court declined to order Ecology to promulgate the youths\u2019 proposed rule, citing the fact that Ecology was already undertaking the Clean Air Rule. In doing so, however, the judge made it very clear that the state has a \u201cmandatory duty<\/strong>\u201d to \u201cpreserve, protect, and enhance the air quality for the current and future generations,\u201d and the state\u2019s current standards fail dramatically for several reasons. The judge\u2019s ruling calls into question Ecology\u2019s present decision to target the Clean Air Rule to complying with these scientifically unsupported standards.The judge continued, writing that \u201ccurrent scientific evidence establishes that rapidly increasing global warming causes an unprecedented risk to the earth, including land, sea, the atmosphere and all living plants and creatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The youth petitioners first requested the state initiate greenhouse gas rulemaking procedures in June 2014. The state refused to do so in August of the same year. The youth appealed that refusal last September, and in a June 2015 decision highlighting the urgency of the climate crisis, the judge ordered the state to reconsider the youth\u2019s petition taking into account current climate science. Then, in July 2015, the youth plaintiffs met with Gov. Inslee to plead their case personally. Just 11 days later, Gov. Inslee ordered the Department of Ecology to institute greenhouse gas rulemaking, as the youth had requested for more than a year. In August 2015, Ecology again refused the youths\u2019 request for a science-based rulemaking because they had initiated similar rulemaking at Gov. Inslee\u2019s request. Because Ecology also rejected the youths’ constitutional and public trust rights, the case, resulting in this decision, was argued in front of Judge Hollis Hill on November 3, 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this important ruling, Judge Hill has made it very clear what Ecology must do when promulgating the Clean Air Rule: preserve, protect and enhance air quality for present and future generations and uphold the constitutional rights of these young people,\u201d said Western Environmental Law Center Attorney Andrea Rodgers. \u201cWe will hold Ecology accountable every step of the way to make sure that Judge Hill’s powerful words are put into action. This is a huge victory for our children and for the climate movement. To Gov. Inslee, we hope you take this message with you to Paris and heed Judge Hill\u2019s finding that \u2018if ever there were a time to recognize through action this right to preservation of a healthful and pleasant environment, the time is now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This case is one of several similar state and international cases, all supported by Our Children\u2019s Trust, seeking the legal right to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate. Cases brought by youth to protect the atmosphere are pending before trial judges in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, and before appellate courts in Massachusetts and Oregon. <\/p>\n

Significantly, similar legal issues are being considered in a federal lawsuit brought in August 2015 against the federal government by 21 young people from across the U.S. and Dr. James Hansen as guardian for all future generations, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Just last week in that case, the world\u2019s largest fossil fuel industry representatives filed a request to intervene to protect their commercial economic interests in fossil fuel exploitation and to thwart the youth\u2019s request for protection of their fundamental constitutional rights. The proposed intervenors, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers<\/span> (representing members Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell, Koch Industries, and virtually all other major refiners and petrochemical manufacturers), the American Petroleum Institute<\/span> (representing 625 oil and natural gas companies), and the National Association of Manufacturers,<\/span> called the youth\u2019s case \u201ca direct threat to [their] businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julia Olson, executive director of Our Children\u2019s Trust said \u201cthis Washington decision establishing constitutional public trust protections for the atmosphere, together with the decision earlier this year doing the same in New Mexico, evidences a wake-up by the judiciary that our collective right to a habitable future is at stake and must be protected by the courts before it is too late. Judge Hill did not mince words on the need for science-based climate action now.\u201d<\/p>\n

A copy of the November 19 decision is available here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A more detailed history of the case is available here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

WELC’s Web page with more information about the case is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contacts:
Andrea Rodgers, Attorney for Plaintiffs, 206-696-2851, rodgers@westernlaw.org<\/span><\/a><\/span> 
Julia Olson, Our Children\u2019s Trust, 415-786-4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n


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Our Children’s Trust <\/em><\/strong>is a nonprofit organization, elevating the voice of youth, those with most to lose, to secure the legal right to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate on behalf of present and future generations. We lead a global human rights and environmental justice campaign to implement enforceable science-based Climate Recovery Plans that will return atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to levels below 350 ppm. <\/em>www.ourchildrenstrust.org\/<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

The Western Environmental Law Center<\/em><\/strong> is a public interest nonprofit law firm. WELC combines legal skills with sound conservation biology and environmental science to address major environmental issues throughout the West. WELC does not charge clients and partners for services, but relies instead on charitable gifts from individuals, families, and foundations to accomplish its mission. <\/em>www.westernlaw.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Plant-for-the-Planet<\/em><\/strong> connects children around the world as Ambassadors for Climate Justice, planting trees, educating the public, influencing decision makers, and now going to court with expert legal guidance. Children inspire children at Academies, free one-day workshops where children ages 8-14 find their voice speaking out for their future and taking action to create a better world<\/em>. http:\/\/www.plant-for-the-planet.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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