Is a healthy environment a 'fundamental right'? Utah Supreme Court to hear case

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Do Utah laws cause dangerous air pollution and climate change in the state? The Utah Supreme Court will decide a constitutional climate case filed by a youth advocacy group.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court will decide a constitutional climate case filed by a youth advocacy group., a nonprofit public interest law firm that provides campaign-based legal services to youths seeking to "secure their legal rights to a safe climate," according to a news release. The group is working in conjunction with Salt Lake-based law firm Deiss Law PC.

The Utah Supreme Court retained Natalie R. v. State of Utah on March 10, nearly one year to the day since it was initially filed in 3rd District Court. Andrew Welle, lead attorney for the case, said the case hasn't yet been scheduled for argument. The original complaint outlines Utah's "unconstitutional" fuel development policies and the ways in which they allegedly harm the plaintiffs.

Her family moved to a higher elevation on a doctor's recommendation, but she still takes daily medication and must often stay indoors due to Utah's "hazardous" air quality.

 

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I’m gonna laugh if they try to do the same thing that California is doing.

'Is breathing woke?'

Lol no

One of the main purposes of government as laid out in the constitution is to promote the general welfare. Not that conservatives have ever read the document.

Short answer: no. Thank you for coming.

All these goombas in here licking corporate boots, repeating talking points for big oil thinking they’re bucking the system and fighting for freedom. lol, yeah pOlUtIoN iS gOoD fOr PlAnTs

Ridiculous.

I think a bigger health risk is the mental health damage the news media and social media are having on people due to sensationalism, tribalism and dividing people all to get “clicks” and generate money/power by skewing headlines and stories to fit their ideologies.

Humans don't cause climate change. Space weather does. And CO2 is not a pollutant, nor does it make our planet hotter. CO2 is plant food. And they want more than they have.

Climate change is a hoax, it doesn’t exist. Only dummies think it does.

Like 66 percent of Utah don't believe in climate change.

Headaches nearly all year around due to pollution in Northern UTAH along the benches. Terrible! 💔❤️‍🩹

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