Eighteen California children are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly violating their constitutional rights by allowing pollution from burning fossil fuels to continue despite knowing the harm it poses to kids.
The lawsuit was filed Sunday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based nonprofit public interest law firm that has filed legal actions over climate change in multiple states. It also names as defendants EPA administrator Michael Regan and the U.S. federal government.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.