Legal Experts Dismiss Climate-Crusading Kids’ Latest ‘Stunt’ As Economic Disaster
Legal experts are dismissing as a political “stunt” a new effort to prohibit the U.S. government from leasing out federal land and offshore areas to fossil fuel companies for oil, gas and coal extraction.
Twenty-one young people suing the U.S. government for supposedly contributing to global warming are asking the court system to block all forms of fossil fuel production moving forward. Lawyers are splashing cold water on the effort, dinging it for being a childish strategy.
“Now I’ve seen everything! Demanding that a federal court enjoin energy production across the nation is a stunt, not a serious litigation strategy,” Andrew Grossman, a lawyer with BakerHostelter, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
He also criticized the plaintiffs, who filed their motion Feb. 7 in the 9th Circuit of Appeals, for not first asking their lawmakers to pass laws addressing global warming.
Officials have repeatedly asked the court to stop the suit through a writ of mandamus, a legal tool allowing a higher court to overrule a lower court before a verdict is made.
“If the plaintiffs seriously believe that energy production needs to stop now, they should be directing their advocacy at Congress, not wasting the courts’ and the government’s time with this kind of nonsense,” he said.
Other experts made similar points.
Plaintiffs’ arguments in the newest motion are likely to go nowhere, according to Steve Milloy, a lawyer and the publisher of JunkScience.com, a website dedicated to fleshing out faulty science designed to push hidden agendas.
“They can’t meet the standard for a preliminary injunction — i.e., imminent and irreparable harm,” he told TheDCNF, referring to the legal scrutiny required to force the government to stop dolling out leases.
Such a move would also have a disastrous effect on the economy, Milloy added.
“Not only could the proposed projects be canned,” he said, “but the entire US could shut down today and forever and the difference to atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions would be insignificant and irrelevant.”
The plaintiffs — young people in between the ages of 11 and 22 — asked the court to issue the injunction before March, when the Trump administration plans to offer nearly 80 million acres of unleased areas off the Gulf of Mexico.
The Trump administration filed a court brief Friday, arguing the youngsters do not have a constitutional right to a safe climate. Plaintiffs in Juliana v. the United States have until Feb. 22 to respond.
Read more at Daily Caller
Source: https://climatechangedispatch.com/climate-crusading-kids-oil-gas/
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