Judge orders DOJ, youth climate plaintiffs to seek settlement

A federal district judge is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 21 youth plaintiffs suing the government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting fossil fuels to seek to a settlement, and is ordering the parties to meet with a magistrate judge who is familiar with the long-running case. In a May 13 order, Judge Ann Aiken of the U.S. District Court for Oregon, who has long been overseeing the case, Juliana, et al. v. United States of America...