In an effort the stem the tide of global warming, in August of 2015, with the support of Our Children’s Trust, a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate, filed suit charging the U. S. government, by purposeful support of a fossil fuel energy system and affirmative actions that cause climate change, has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, as well as failed to protect essential public trust resources. Attorney for Our Children’s Trust, Philip Gregory, discusses the status of these litigations.

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