California Children File Climate Lawsuit Against EPA

The lawsuit alleges the agency allows harmful climate pollution, violating their constitutional rights to life and equal protection.

A group of 18 children from California, aged between 8 and 17, have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging it allows harmful climate pollution from fossil fuel sources it regulates.
The lawsuit, Genesis B. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, claims the children are facing life-threatening climate change injuries, including displacement due to floods and wildfires, and exposure to pollution.
The children are represented by the organization Children's Trust and are seeking a trial to weigh the evidence and issue a declaratory judgment that the EPA has violated their constitutional rights to life and equal protection of the law.
The lawsuit also alleges that the EPA has discriminated against them as children by discounting the economic value of their lives and their future when deciding how much climate pollution to allow.
The defendants in the case include the EPA, its administrator, Michael Regan, and the United States federal government.