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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon-based youth climate activists say settlement talks with...

Password * Remember me New to Energy Central? Applying for membership with Energy Central allows you to connect with a network of more than 200,000 global power industry professionals. Over the past six years, the Juliana plaintiffs have grown in age, understanding, and stature. The lead plaintiff, Kelsey Juliana, is now 25 years old; Levi Draheim, the youngest, is 14. Individually and as a group, they’ve now had first-hand experience—perhaps to their chagrin—of the ways of Washington a...

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MORE Pro-choice activists rally to stop states’ abortion bans in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Photo by Rena Schild.  “Abortion was legal under common law during the colonial era. ...   [Abortions were] done at home, by women themselves,” says Leslie Reagan, who teaches  Gender and Womens Studies at the University of Illinois. “Women taught each other ... mothers to daughters to sisters. … There were recipes and domestic he...

   US District Judge Ann Aiken ordered attorneys for plaintiffs and for the Department of Justice to meet for a settlement conference with Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin in the climate suit Juliana v United States. Aiken said she thinks it’s “a tremendous opportunity” and she said she hopes parties don’t see this just as a “ministerial step”. Plaintiffs’ attorney Julia Olson said they’re happy to do so. Juliana v United States was filed in 2015. It argues the federal governmen...

New book by former Pa. state senator calls for environmental rights amendment to the Constitution Updated Apr 29, 2021; Posted Apr 29, 2021 Franklin Kury, author of Pennsylvanias Environmental Rights Amendments, points to need for national amendment in new book. (File photo) Facebook Share An amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing a right to a healthy environment is the call issued in a new book by Franklin Kury, who more than 50 years ago, as a newly elected Pennsylvania state senat...

Alerts Kelsey Rose Juliana, the lead plaintiff on the Juliana v. United States case, speaks at a rally in 2019. Photo: Steve Dipaola (AP) Since taking office, President Biden has positioned himself as the antidote to Trump on climate, passing sweeping executive ordersreversing the previous administration’s actions and launching aggressive infrastructure projects meant to bring the country into a low-carbon future. But moves made by the administration in two high-profile legal cases last week ...

After a hard-fought battle with Covid-19 pneumonia it is with devastating sadness, Orion Ray Olson Sr. left this world on Dec. 22, 2020, at Essentia Health Hospital in Virginia, Minn., at the age of 86. Orion grew up on his familys farm in Northome, Minn., leaving school at a young age to help out with chores on the farm. He moved and lived around that area before settling down in Cook, Minn., with his wife and family. His entire life was always involved with working hard in the woods in the No...

Youth climate activists try to bring back federal lawsuit By Associated Press Share: PORTLAND — Youth climate activists are attempting to bring back their suit against the federal government. They filed a motion Tuesday in federal court in Eugene to amend their lawsuit, Julianna v. United States, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year found a federal judge lacked the power to order or design a climate recovery ...

Young people seeking to change federal policy on climate change try new tactic FacebookTwitterEmail Youth plaintiffs in the climate change lawsuit gather in a federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a panel of judges with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Portland, Ore., in 2019. That suit was dismissed so they’re trying a different tactic.Robin Loznak / Associated Press After a federal appeals court reluctantly dismissed a lawsuit by 21 young people demanding government action again...