Lawyers in the case argued that the orders will worsen the climate crisis and cause a “children’s health emergency.”…

The federal court system will not give a youth-led constitutional climate lawsuit additional consideration after a panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition to rehear the case before the full circuit. Lighthiser v. Trump is one of a series of youth-led climate change lawsuits brought by Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based advocacy law firm…

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