Sixteen young people are suing the state, arguing that its support of fossil fuels violates their constitutional rights.
. “Although defendants know that the youth plaintiffs are living under dangerous climatic conditions that create an unreasonable risk of harm, they continue to act affirmatively to exacerbate the climate crisis,” the suit states., the rancher’s daughter and the only plaintiff who was 18 when Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Eugene, Oregon, filed the suit in March, 2020. It is one of many similar lawsuits nationwide but the first to reach a courtroom.
Vlases, 20, is a student at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. She grew up in Bozeman, Montana, where she was a bright and socially conscious student who lobbied her high school to install solar panels and wrote legislation supporting the technology as a member of the school’s solar club. She joined the lawsuit when she was 17, before, she noted, she could even vote.
“I’m a little nervous. I’ve never done that before,” she said. “I hope that what I say matters to the people listening.”
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