Last May, a group of young Americans, fed up with government
inaction on climate change, decided to sue to protect their
future. The group, led by 16-year old Alec Loorz, founder of
Kids vs. Global Warming  and the iMatter campaign , filed legal
actions against the federal government and 49 states , seeking
to force the states and federal government to develop a
comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to levels
deemed necessary by the best available science. Earlier today, a
D.C. District Court judge ruled that the National Association of
Manufacturers and other polluter interests can intervene  on the
government's behalf to argue that they have the right to keep on
dumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere. So the case is
sure to prove controversial and the world will be watching to
see how the courts handle the matter in the weeks and months to
come. As Loorz, now 17, explained to me last week, the decision
to sue the government came only after seeing the failures of the
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