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The BoZone MSU grad’s film headlines Big Sky Documentary Film Festival February 24, 2021 by Carol Schmidt, MSU News Service BOZEMAN – A documentary made by a Montana State University film graduate about 21 young people seeking legal relief for their claims that government harm has violated their constitutional rights and created the climate crisis will be the centerpiece film of the virtual 2021 Big Sky Documentary Festival, Feb. 19–28. “YOUTH v GOV,” a feature-length documentary by C...

Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Kelsey Juliana. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News Kelsey Juliana, the lead plaintiff in the kids climate lawsuit, speaks in front of the Supreme Court in September 2019 as co-plaintiffs and lawmakers watch. Francis Chung/E&E News A federal appeals court today declined to reconsider a landmark case brought by young people asking the U.S. government to phase out fossil fuels. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a larger slate of its active judg...

© Getty Images The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected youth activists’ appeal to rehear their suit challenging the federal government for exacerbating climate change, leaving the Supreme Court as the only remaining option for plaintiffs in the novel case. The court said the motion failed to receive enough votes to be heard in front of the full panel of judges. The plaintiffs said they plan to appeal to the high court. "The 9th Circuit has deprived people in that Circuit th...

Teens Press Climate Cases in Courts Across the World   EUGENE, Oregon, January 25, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is worsening by the year, threatening to make the planet unliveable for people now in their teens and early twenties. Because government actions are often at the root of climate warming, young Americans have taken the first legal steps in a youth climate movement to require the government to respect their right to a stable, healthy climate, encouraging similar actions globally. Toda...

Home » Environment » A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled in Cascadia Washington, Oregon and British Columbia pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. In a decade full of big talk and some epic battles, they all failed. With dozens of people killed by wildfires in the western U.S., millions of acres scorched, and choking smoke spreading far into British Columbia, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee lit up the news wires in September. “These are not just wildfires,” Inslee asserted at a pres...

Cascadia Was Poised to Lead on Climate. Can It Still? BC, Washington and Oregon all aimed to slash emissions. After epic battles, they failed. First in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere. SHARES Aji Piper, now 20, was 15 when he joined a l...

Washington, Oregon and British Columbia all pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions, and all fell short. Why? by Twenty-year-old Aji Piper was 15 when he became a plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit in which youths are suing the U.S. government on the grounds that it is continuing to allow climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. He is pictured here wearing a mask to protect himself during one of Washingtons climate-driven smoke emergencies. (Alex Garland) With dozens of people killed by wildf...

Oregon suffered its most intense fire season in recent history this fall, with blazes raging across the state killing 11 and destroying at least 4,500 buildings. The state, like others in the American west, has seen its fire season grow longer and more fierce in recent years, as climate change-related drought and heat have made the landscape more prone to burning and years of fire suppression have caused fuels to build. Now, the plaintiffs in a landmark climate change lawsuit against the US gov...