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The Hill @thehill 20m20 minutes agoChildren sue Trump for using "junk science" in climate change policies http://hill.cm/smWdJ3J
___The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Pennsylvania, alleges the U.S. is using junk science to roll back policies designed to limit the impact of climate change.
It comes from the Philadelphia-based Clean Air Council and two child plaintiffs who have been personally impacted by climate change, because one has asthma and another lived through Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Irene.
They ask the court to stop the government from pushing any rollbacks that increase the frequency and/or intensity of the life-threatening effects of climate change.
We will not stand idly by while President Trump and his agencies raze crucial environmental protections, ignore climate science, dispute well-documented facts and force future generations of Americans to suffer the consequences of this administrations reckless choices and ignorant policies, said Clean Air Council Executive Director and Chief Counsel Joseph Minott.
We must hold the federal government accountable for the long-term environmental harm that is propagating under its direction. Its time to fight back, he said.
The suit names Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt as defendants.
read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-lawsuit/two-children-sue-over-trump-effort-to-roll-back-clean-power-plan-idUSKBN1D62UW
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Children sue Trump for using "junk science" (Original Post)
bigtree
Nov 2017
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. Junk science & junk religion - republicans lower the bar
on just about everything.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)2. You know the country's gone to hell in a handbasket
when little kids have more common sense than the overgrown children in charge of policy. Tragic!
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)3. The kids are smarter than the three of them combined.