Youths Say Intervention Decision Signals Ruling Soon In Climate Case

A federal district judge is rejecting requests by GOP-led states to intervene in a novel constitutional climate change case brought by 21 young people against the federal government, with the plaintiffs suggesting the decision may signal that an affirmative ruling on their 2021 request to continue the case is imminent. Judge Ann Aiken of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon in a March 14 text-only order denied an intervention request from 18 Republican attorneys general (AGs) in...