December 16, 2011 19:09
by J. Wylie Donald
2000 years ago all roads led to Rome. Nowadays, as Our Children’s Trust recently found out, the road of a climate change lawsuit leads to Washington. All are familiar with the path to Washington taken by Massachusetts v. EPA and American Electric Power v. Connecticut. Last week a different path surfaced: the trial court. The District of the District of Columbia became the Washington venue of Alec L. v. Jackson when the Northern District of California transferred the federal climate change suit instigated by Our Children’s Trust.
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