Editors note: This legal action falls into main stream narrative of Agenda 2030, the call to do away with fossil fuel consumption. ie: transportation, heating and cooling..etc. This article gives the impression that The Pope will join the Community of Banksters in the biggest Ponzi Scheme called “Carbon Credits.” ~ Pam Jones (TLB)
By Jack Moran
A federal judge in Eugene will allow trade groups representing some of the world’s largest energy companies to join the U.S. government in trying to stamp out a lawsuit filed by a group of environmentally minded youths seeking a court order to force the government to drastically reduce emissions contributing to climate change.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Tom Coffin last week granted defendant status in the case to the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. The groups represent scores of oil, coal and natural gas companies that rely on energy sources that emit carbon dioxide. They requested to intervene in the case in November.
The plaintiffs, meanwhile, gained allies of their own on Friday when two large Catholic organizations advised the court of their support for the youths’ cause.
A lawyer for the youth plaintiffs in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene said Coffin “was wise to allow the fossil fuel industry into our constitutional case.”
The industry “would not want to be in court unless it understood the significance of our case,” attorney Philip Gregory of Burlingame, Calif., said in a prepared statement. He added that the lawsuit presents “a momentous threat” to conventional energy companies.
The trade groups, which represent corporations that include Exxon Mobil, BP and Chevron, argue in court filings that a ruling in the youths’ favor would cause them considerable harm. They also assert that they are already subject to many environmental regulations under the federal Clean Air Act and other laws.
Both the government and the trade groups have asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit. A hearing on those requests is scheduled for March 9.
Government attorneys say in court filings that the government has “substantial separation of powers concerns” surrounding the case, which they said has the potential to improperly “transform the District Court into a super-regulator setting national climate policy.”
A total of 21 youths between the ages of 8 and 19, eight of whom call Eugene home, filed suit in August. They allege that the government — which they say has known for decades that carbon dioxide pollution is causing climate change — has violated their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property by allowing fossil fuel exploitation.
The plaintiffs want a judge to order the government to create a plan that works to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions released in the burning of fossil fuels. Big changes are needed, they say, to protect the environment for today’s youth as well as future generations.
While major energy companies are now aligned with the government in the litigation, a pair of international Catholic groups on Friday jointly filed court papers in support of the youth plaintiffs.
The Global Catholic Climate Movement and the Leadership Council of Women Religious assert in their filing that the federal government has a duty to “take immediate action to abate dangerous greenhouse gas pollution” that threatens the climate. They point out that Pope Francis made similar remarks during a speech at the White House in September.
The Catholic groups state in the filing that basic religious and ethical principles contributed to the development of a federal public trust doctrine — which the youths allege has been violated by the government — that directs the nation’s leaders to safeguard natural resources for current and future residents. They also say legal reform in the United States has long been influenced by religious and moral viewpoints such as the one they offer in the climate case.
“Given their global reach on behalf of one of the world’s largest faiths, the (two Catholic groups) are uniquely situated to offer this perspective,” the brief asserts.
Unlike the trade groups, the Catholic organizations are not seeking formal party status in the case.
The federal case is among a series of lawsuits filed by youth plaintiffs working with Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit environmental group based in Eugene. Also named as a plaintiff is James Hansen, a leading climate scientist who said in an expert declaration filed along with the lawsuit that the government must act to phase out fossil fuel use as rapidly as possible, in order to preserve a habitable climate.
The youth plaintiffs include Kelsey Juliana, 19, who is also one of two plaintiffs appealing a Lane County Circuit Court judge’s May decision in a separate lawsuit. The state judge had rejected assertions that the court should order Oregon state government to take more steps to combat climate change.
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This is an attempt by the law firm in this ridiculous at grand standing, and the proof of how worthless this case is, how can any legal decision in any court in this country be enforced out side of the United States, for instance all carbon dioxide molecules are identical unless the carbon in question was an isotope of Carbon, that still wouldn’t let any lab in the world identify which country was the offending country. Here’s how twisted the logic in this case is, if your critical of these kid’s case, the lawyers are counting on the neurotic public opinion to up hold the kids case, because common sense tells us no one in politics wants to come out against kid’s, right?
Baby kissing still get ‘s out the votes, and it always will, but come on these Lawyers are counting on human nature, in fact that’s how they might do some serious damage along the way, but do they care? Remember,these are LAWYERS! As long as they win, that’s their sworn duty to their clients even if the clients are a bunch of highly suggestible, as in hypnosis, and are easy prey at the hands of a good brain washing by a trained psychologist, and at the hands of a skilled psychologist, the power of suggestion becomes a powerful tool, and these kids will be adults by the time this very long lived case will play out. So there is nothing in this for them in reqards to monetary damages.
These slime balls will hide behind a woman’s skirts if they thought it would win them a case, but in fact it is suggestive of a highly psychological warfare tactic being used in this case without merit, and a manipulative tactic designed to bend you to social peer pressure, This is kind of like a school yard bully does with their small band of backer ups who are thugs too. De Toqueville was right, democracy is the tyranny of the masses, where the individual’s rights are crushed by the majority. Nothing has changed in the time between when he said it, and today, human nature being what it is… The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance…these kids will in all likelihood become lawyers them selves, god forbid! So the crime will continue…