'Tragic and Unjust': Trump Judges Grant Biden DOJ Request to Toss Youth Climate Case

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Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.

A panel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department's request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the U.S. government accountable for damaging the planet and violating the rights of younger generations. The order handed down by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel instructs an Oregon district court to toss Juliana v.

United States was brought in 2015 by 21 young Americans who argued the federal government has violated their 'fundamental constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property' by continuing to allow the extraction of fossil fuels despite knowing their central role in destructive planetary heating.

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