Twenty -one two young Americans, including minors, challenge the decisions of the Trump administration to relaunch the extraction of fossil fuels, of which they denounce the harmful consequences on climate change.
These 22 young people, mostly inhabitants of Montana (Northwest), where this federal procedure began this Thursday, May 29, are represented by our children, a firm of non -profit lawyers, which has already been successful in the field of this state.
They attack a series of presidential decrees, including one taken by Donald Trump as soon as he assumed the position on January 20 aimed at increasing the production of oil and gas. The purpose of these decrees is to respond to “an emergency of the state of energy,” according to the US president, notoriously Climateceptic, who again withdrew his country from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
A historical victory for two young people in 2023
“These young people dispute these presidential decrees with the argument that they violate their rights to life, security and health” by promoting fossil fuels to the detriment of renewable energy, said Andrea Rodgers, lawyer of the NGO of our children. The cabinet has obtained legal successes in recent years in several states.
In August 2023, a Judge of Montana thus agreed to young people who accused their state of breaking their constitutional right to a “clean and healthy environment” by promoting the fossil fuel industry, a historical decision in the first important climate trial of gender in the United States.
And in June 2024, the state of Hawaii promised to make its transport sector less polluting, thus avoiding a trial after a complaint of 13 young people. However, these appeals did not lead to the federal level. A Federal Court of California (West) thus rejected in May 2024 a complaint of young minors against the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its inability to combat pollution.
Source: BFM TV
