DOJ plans to challenge kids' climate suit at every opportunity

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is signaling to a federal district court judge that it plans to use every opportunity to fight a suit from 21 youth plaintiffs that claims the government is violating the Constitution by not protecting them from climate change, with DOJ aiming to avoid having to share what it knew when on climate science during discovery and a high-publicity trial. DOJ submitted an Aug. 1 filing to Judge Ann Aiken of the U.S. District Court for...