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These kids and young adults want their day in court on climate change

  • Written by Mary Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon
Young people will spend more years living with the consequences of climate policies than their elders.Robin Loznak, courtesy of Our Children's Trust, CC BY-NC-SA

Humanity must rapidly decrease greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, climate scientists have warned for decades. But America’s president has both...

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