Court, which expressed sympathy with plaintiffs, says judges don’t have the power to require the government to phase out fossil-fuel emissions
A U.S. federal appeals court threw out a novel lawsuit alleging the federal government was violating young people’s constitutional rights by not doing more to address the harms of climate change.
The San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed sympathy with the young plaintiffs who sued the government, saying that a “failure to change existing policy may hasten an environmental apocalypse.” But in a 2-to-1 ruling Friday, the court said it had to toss the case because judges don’t have the power to require...
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