Doomed climate lawsuits waste precious time and money

For the second time in two months and the fourth time in two years, courts have tossed climate lawsuits.
On January 17, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought on behalf of 21 youths by the climate legal advocacy group Our Children’s Trust. The case was an attempt to force the federal government to impose limits on fossil fuel use.
This decision comes just a month after New York state Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager dismissed a lawsuit bro