Clean Air Council Sues Trump Administration for Knowingly Endangering Citizens Through Climate Change Rollback

The Clean Air Council and two Pennsylvania children have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to prevent it from rolling back policies, programs, laws, rules, and regulations previously in place to address and ameliorate climate change and its consequences.

Michael Hausfeld

The pro bono litigation brought Washington DC attorney Michael Hausfeld focuses on the federal government’s knowledge — dating back over fifty years — that climate change presents a clear and present danger to life, and represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet.

“The federal government has relied on junk science to implement reckless climate change policies in the face of indisputable U.S. and international scientific consensus,” Hausfeld said in a statement. “It is the government’s responsibility to protect the lives and welfare of citizens and the life-sustaining resources they depend on. These acts of deliberate indifference are increasing U.S. contributions to climate change, thereby increasing the frequency and intensity of its life-threatening effects, and violating the constitutional rights of all U.S. citizens.”

The lawsuit was filed against President Donald Trump, the Department of Energy, Secretary Rick Perry, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Administrator Scott Pruitt.

“We will not stand idly by while President Trump and his agencies raze crucial environmental protections, ignore climate science, dispute well-documented facts and force future generations of Americans to suffer the consequences of this administration’s reckless choices and ignorant policies,” said Clean Air Council executive director Joseph Minott.

“We must hold the federal government accountable for the long-term environmental harm that is propagating under its direction. It’s time to fight back.”

Hausfeld said that “by deliberately engaging in this rollback of climate policies and programs, the government is affirmatively endangering the lives and welfare of its citizens.”

This lawsuit comes on the heels of the federal government’s release of the National Climate Assessment, which, in stark contrast to the administration’s environmental policies, affirms that climate change is almost entirely caused by human action and is a growing threat to the United States.

 

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