Judge Expected To Grant EPA Motion To Dismiss Youth Climate Case

A federal district judge appears poised to grant the government’s motion to dismiss a youth climate case that alleges EPA and the White House are violating the Constitution’s equal-protection clause by discounting the value of children’s lives when setting climate policy, following a Sept. 30 hearing on the youths’ amended complaint. Philip Gregory, an attorney representing the young people in Genesis v. EPA in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, tells Inside EPA that Judge...