OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #138, JULY 31, 2023

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #138, JULY 31, 2023

RESISTANCE Senator Jeff Merkley: Biden Must Stop New Fossil Fuel Projects. Jay Inslee.   “'The Climate Change Bomb Has Gone Off.”   Marjory Cohn. “Youth Plaintiffs in Court Against Montana.”     Brett Wilkins.   “'July Should Be a Wake-Up Call':  Senator Says Biden Must Stop Approving New Fossil Fuel Projects.”   Common Dreams (7-30-23).

"We are in a climate emergency," said Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley. "We can't take a piecemeal approach to the massive crisis we face."

CLIMATE CHANGE, COMMENTARY, HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, LEGAL, U.S.

 

Jessica Corbett.  “'The Climate Change Bomb Has Gone Off,' Says Jay Inslee Amid Extreme Heat.” Common Dreams.  July 23, 2023  "What the scientific community is telling us now, is that the Earth is screaming at us," said the Washington governor. "We need to stop using fossil fuels. That is the only solution to this massive assault on humanity."   MarjorieCohn Truthout  “Youth Plaintiffs in Court Against Montana.”  June 14, 2023. The potentially far-reaching case is based on the state constitution, which enshrines the right to a clean and healthful environment, writes Marjorie Cohn.  In a case that could have far-reaching implications for the struggle against the climate crisis, the trial in a lawsuit brought by a group of youth plaintiffs began in Montana on Monday [June 12, 2023]. The first such case about climate change to go to trial, Held v. Montana involves the specific impacts the climate crisis has on young people.   This trial is a bellwether for other cases throughout the United States. Mat dos Santos, general counsel for Our Children’s Trust, which represents the youth plaintiffs, said that the lawsuit “is not just about Montana. It’s really about the climate here in the United States and around the world.” [This is just one of a spate of lawsuits underway challenging governments over their fossil fuel policies that drive climate change, as The Guardian reports: “‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis.”] If this suit is successful, it would be a “watershed moment” that could lead to a “cascade of legal victories around the country,” dos Santos added, and would likely have global implications.     MORE   https://consortiumnews.com/category/commentary/