On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing a major victory for 16 young activists who said the state of Montana violated their right to a healthy environment. Legal scholars say the ruling is a gamechanger for similar climate change lawsuits across the country.
We'll also find out why Project 2025, the Republican plan to dismantle US climate policy, isn't getting more media attention, and why the political press isn’t asking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis about the bleaching and dying coral reefs in the Florida Keys.
Later in the show, we’ll discuss the finalists of this year’s Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.
Guests:
Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter with The Guardian US
Mark Hertsgaard, environmental correspondent for The Nation, executive director of Covering Climate Now, and author of Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth
Web Resources:
The Guardian: ‘Gamechanger’: judge rules in favor of young activists in US climate trial
The Guardian: ‘Traumatic loss’: Indigenous traditions hit by fruit scarcity, climate trial hears
Exxon Knews: Maui is suing Big Oil
The Guardian: Climate activists outraged over Biden claim he ‘practically’ declared US emergency
Your Call: Project 2025 lays out GOP plan to dismantle US climate policy
Huffpost: There’s A Crisis Unfolding In Florida's Waters. DeSantis Hasn’t Said A Word.
Scientific American: DeSantis’s Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools
CBS: July was the hottest month on Earth since U.S. temperature records began, scientists say
Covering Climate Now: The 2023 CCNow Journalism Awards
NRDC: Oil Industry Netted Billions in Profits, Despite Global Price Dip
