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businessweek.com -A group of attorneys representing children and young adults began to file legal actions Wednesday in every state and the District of Columbia in an effort to force government intervention on climate change. The goal is to have the atmosphere declared for the first time as a "public trust" deserving special protection. That's a concept previously used to clean up polluted rivers and coastlines, although legal experts said they were uncertain it could be applied successfully to climate change. The spate of lawsuits, led by an Oregon-based nonprofit called Our Children's Trust, were based on "common law" theories, not statutes adopted by state or federal lawmakers. More
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Climate Activists Target NM With Lawsuits
From businessweek.com -A group of attorneys representing children and young adults began to file legal actions Wednesday in every state and the District of Columbia in an effort to force government intervention on climate change. The goal is to have the atmosphere declared for the first time as a "public trust" deserving special protection. That's a concept previously used to clean up polluted rivers and coastlines, although legal experts said they were uncertain it could be applied successfully to climate change. The spate of lawsuits, led by an Oregon-based nonprofit called Our Children's Trust, were based on "common law" theories, not statutes adopted by state or federal lawmakers. More News New Mexico
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For those ignorant of things: Common law is law expounded by judges NOT the cultural ideas that most people think the term common law implies.
IF they win, then it should be a requirement that the government identify each and every CO2 molecule has having been released by a nonnatural process versus a natural process. They must prove that the substance in question would not be a part of the atmosphere if the nonnatural production did not exist.
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